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- noun Plural form of
staphylinid .
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Many guests were plodding along with the ants, mostly staphylinids of which we secured five species, a brown histerid beetle, a tiny chalcid, and several Phorid flies, one of which was winged.
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
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