acrocerid

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acrocerid (plural acrocerids)

(entomology) Any fly of the family Acroceridae.
- 1907, William Lundbeck, Diptera Danica: Genera and Species of Flies Hitherto Found in Denmark, G.E.C. Gad, →OCLC:
  The Acrocerids are very curious and characteristic flies on account of their small head, large, bulbous thorax, inflated abdomen and large thoracic squamulae.
- 1974, Boris B. Rohdendorf, The Historical Development of Diptera, University of Alberta Press, →OCLC, page 86:
  The winged form of acrocerids is characterized by a great reduction in the size of the head, by very great increase of the thorax with weak legs, and by small, often costalized wings; the flies feed, if at all, on the nectar of flowers.