Talk:Tabanidae

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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 16, 2015.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the horse-fly (pictured) can transfer blood-borne diseases from one animal to another while feeding?

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Hyphenation

Whether the subject of the article should be hyphenated appears doubtful; compare the selection of dictionaries offering "horse-fly" with those offering "horsefly". WolfmanSF (talk) 15:12, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Where to mention one-word spelling?

I know this article is in British English, but surely the American spelling (I think) horsefly should also be mentioned, either as a second option in the first sentence, or somewhere in the "Common names" section.

I would prefer the first option, as is often done for words that vary between varieties of English, also because it seems a little awkward to shoehorn it into "Common names", which is about other names, not other spellings.

I'd do it myself, but I'm slightly unsure whether this is really an ENGVAR difference, or just a free stylistic variation, and the wording might be a little different in the two cases. --Trovatore (talk) 02:29, 24 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]