soldier fly

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soldier fly (plural soldier flies)

  1. Any fly of the insect family Stratiomyidae, which resemble wasps.
    • 2019 July 1, “A Game of Flies: naming 230 new species”, in CSIRO‎[1]:
      Prosopochrysa lemannae is a tiny soldier fly from Judbarra National Park in the Northern Territory.

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