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Is a fly an arachnid?

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arachnid (an air-breathing arthropod characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs)
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fly (a member of the Diptera; a true fly possessing a single pair of wings)
Is fly (a member of the Diptera; a true fly possessing a single pair of wings) a type of arachnid (Arachnids, the class of joint-legged invertebrate animals in the subphylum Chelicerata)?
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Insects and arachnids - arachnid: any of a class of mostly terrestrial invertebrate ... walls for burrows, build egg sacs, wrap prey, temporarily hold sperm, and even fly ...
A fly is an insect, mainly because it has wings and only 2 eyes (but many lenses). A fly has soft skin and no skeleton (like a worm), while arachnids have an external skeleton.
A crane fly is an insect in the family Tipulidae. Adults are very slender, long-legged ... but this name can also refer to two unrelated arthropods: members of the arachnid order ...

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