Stratiomyiidae

plural noun

Strat·​io·​my·​ii·​dae

: a family of small often brightly colored two-winged flies comprising the soldier flies and having saprophagous or predacious terrestrial or aquatic larvae

Word History

Etymology

New Latin Stratiomyia, type genus (from Greek stratios of an army, warlike + New Latin -myia) + -idae

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