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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within thesuperfamily Phoroidea — thephorid flies.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet we know from a careful and detailed study of its anatomy that not only is it a fly, this parasite of termite nests belongs to a particular family of flies, the Phoridae.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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H. L. Disney and D. H. Kistner, ‘Revision of the termitophilous Thaumatoxeninae (Diptera: Phoridae)’, Journal of Natural History (1992) 26: 953–91.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Yet we know from a careful and detailed study of its anatomy that not only is it a fly, this parasite of termite nests belongs to a particular family of flies, the Phoridae.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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H. L. Disney and D. H. Kistner, ‘Revision of the termitophilous Thaumatoxeninae (Diptera: Phoridae)’, Journal of Natural History (1992) 26: 953–91.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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