Hippoboscoidea is a superfamily of Calyptratae. The flies in this superfamily are blood-feeding obligate parasites of their hosts. Five families are often placed here:GlossinidaeHippoboscidaeMormotomyiidae (disputed, see Kirk-Spriggs et al., 2011)NycteribiidaeStreblidae (disputed)The Hippoboscidae are commonly called louse flies. The bat flies are Nycteribiidae and Streblidae; the latter are probably not monophyletic and ought to be either split in two families or united with the Nycteribiidae.
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