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- proper noun A
family ofcyclorrhaphous flies .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Syrphidae – hover fly or flower fly, Loveland, Colorado.
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Syrphidae – hover fly or flower fly, Loveland, Colorado.
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Members of the Syrphidae collect organic matter from the substrate for ingestion.
Insecta (Aquatic) 2008
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Many members of the hover-fly family (Syrphidae) have maggots with the tail-spiracles situated at the end of a prominent tubular process.
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Volucella is a fly -- one of the Syrphidae -- supposed to supply a case of mimicry; this was doubtless the point of interest with Bates.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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Flower Fly - Flower Fly - from the Syrphidae family.
Iowa Voice 2008
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I. Outline of Biological Survey Plan Syrphidae of Ohio by C.L. Metcalf $ .50
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker 1894
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