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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versicolor, which are predominantly visited (and presumably pollinated) by flies, particularly seaweed flies (Coelopidae).
Facultative self-pollination in island irises
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