| NOUN | animal | Asilidae, family Asilidae | robber flies |
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| Meaning | robber flies. | |
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| Synonym | family Asilidae | |
| Member of | Diptera, order Diptera | A large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths |
| Members | robber fly, bee killer | swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing |
| Broader | arthropod family | Any of the arthropods |