Coelopidae
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Coelopidae
[sə′lō·pə‚dē] (invertebrate zoology)
The seaweed flies, a family of myodarian cyclorrhaphous dipteran insects in the subsection Acalypteratae whose larvae breed on decomposing seaweed.
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