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Beach Flies
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Beach Flies

Canacidae

Canacidae, incorrectly Canaceidae, or beach flies, surf or surge flies, is a family of Diptera.There are 113 species in 12 genera. The family now includes Tethininae as a subfamily.

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Beach Flies

subfamilyTethininae

Canacinae

subfamilyCanacinae

Horaismopterinae

subfamilyHoraismopterinae

Pelomyiinae

subfamilyPelomyiinae

Zaleinae

subfamilyZaleinae

Apetaeninae

subfamilyApetaeninae

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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 203411.