heleomyzid

plural heleomyzids

1. biologyAny member of the family Heleomyzidae of flies.

   Trixoscelids are scarcely distinguishable from heleomyzids.

   1979, Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada

   2 more examples

   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.

   1978, Alan Stubbs, A dipterist's handbook, page 119

   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.

   2013, Zakaria Erzinçlioglu, Maggots, Murder, and Men