SYRPHID FLY

[syr.phid fly] n [NL Syrphidae, fr. Syrphus, genus of flies, fr. Gk syrphos gnat] (ca. 1891): any of a family (Syrphidae) of dipteran flies which frequent flowers and some of whose larvae prey on plant lice--called also syrphid -- syrphid adj