| NOUN | animal | bee killer, robber fly | swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing |
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| Meaning | swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing. | |
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| Synonym | robber fly | |
| Member of | Asilidae, family Asilidae | robber flies |
| Broader | dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |
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