heleomyzid

English

Noun

heleomyzid (plural heleomyzids)

1. (zoology) Any member of the family Heleomyzidae of flies.
   • 1978, Alan Stubbs, A dipterist's handbook, page 119:

     Carrion in woods possibly has a distinctive fauna; the commonest flies are Piophila (especially Pnigriceps) and the heleomyzid Neoleria inscripta while Calliphoridae are less in evidence.

   • 1979, Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada:

     Trixoscelids are scarcely distinguishable from heleomyzids.

   • 2013, Zakaria Erzinçlioglu, Maggots, Murder, and Men‎^[1]:

     The larvae of a small fly called a heleomyzid were present in some numbers on the body, suggesting that the burial probably took place at the end of winter or in early spring because eggs laid before winter would not have survived to produce larvae.