Oestridae

family of parasitic flies
Taxon taxon Q27485
Oestridae
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Oestridae

Summary

Oestridae is a taxon[1]. Oestridae ranks in the top 0.29% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,560 views/month, #558 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Oestridae's image is recorded as Horse Botfly Imago.png[3].
  • Oestridae's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Oestridae's taxon rank is recorded as family[5].
  • Oestridae's parent taxon is recorded as Oestroidea[6].
  • Oestridae's parent taxon is recorded as Muscomorpha[7].
  • Oestridae's taxon name is recorded as Oestridae[8].
  • Oestridae's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85016013[9].
  • Oestridae's Commons category is recorded as Oestridae[10].
  • Oestridae's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02zy9c[11].
  • Oestridae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7387[12].
  • Oestridae's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph116326[13].
  • Oestridae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 151717[14].
  • Oestridae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 8978[15].
  • Oestridae's BioLib taxon ID is recorded as 17447[16].
  • Oestridae's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 207372[17].
  • Oestridae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 9499[18].
  • Oestridae's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Oestridae[19].
  • Oestridae's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • Oestridae's described by source is recorded as Checklist of Diptera of the Czech Republic and Slovakia[21].
  • Oestridae's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[22].
  • Oestridae's described by source is recorded as The American Cyclopædia[23].
  • Oestridae's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/bot-fly[24].
  • Oestridae's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Bot Flies'}[25].
  • Oestridae's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Warble Flies'}[26].
  • Oestridae's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Heel Flies'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for Oestridae include Nanuchka-class corvette[28], a ship class[29].

Why It Matters

Oestridae ranks in the top 0.29% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,560 views/month, #558 of 195,241).[2] Oestridae has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] Oestridae is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for Oestridae include Nanuchka-class corvette[28], a ship class[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . BugGuide. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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