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Shore Flies
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Shore Flies

Ephydridae

Ephydridae (shore fly, sometimes brine fly) is a family of insects in the order Diptera.

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4 branches of this family, most-observed first

Ephydrinae

subfamilyEphydrinae

Hydrelliinae

subfamilyHydrelliinae

Gymnomyzinae

subfamilyGymnomyzinae

Lipochaetinae

subfamilyLipochaetinae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 84670.