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Sycoracinae
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Sycoracinae

Sycoracinae is a subfamily of moth flies in the family Psychodidae'. Unlike most moth flies, which have reduced mouthparts and cryptic habits, females of Sycoracinae are equipped to feed on vertebrate blood.

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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 495814.