Flee

Flee; Temporal range: 245–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N Middle Triassic – Recent
	Syrphus ribesii, shawin chairacteristic dipteran features: lairge een, smaw antennae, suckin moothpairts, single pair o fleein weengs, hindweengs reduced tae clublik halteres
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Cless:	Insecta
(unranked):	Antliophora
Order:	Diptera; Linnaeus, 1758

Flees is insects o the Order Diptera (Greek: di = twa, an pteron = wing), that hase ae pair o wings on the mesothorax an a pair o halteres, derived frae the hind wings, on the metathorax. The hooseflee (Musca domestica) is a richt flee an is ane o the maist braid distreebute ainimals.

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