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Miridae
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Miridae [′mirĀ·ə‚dē]
(invertebrate zoology)
The largest family of the Hemiptera; included in the Cimicomorpha, it contains herbivorous and predacious plant bugs which lack ocelli and have a cuneus and four-segmented antennae.


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