Mydas fly

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English

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Gauromydas heros

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Noun

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Mydas fly (plural Mydas flies)

  1. Any fly of the family Mydidae, generally large in size.
    • 1881, Half Hours with Insects[1]:
      Descending the scale of hymenopterous life we come to the Pompilus (Fig. 61), which is mimicked by the large black Mydas fly, whose antennae are unusually long and hymenopterous-like.

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