Were "Acid Flies" these things of BIONICLE Heroes?

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So in BIONICLE Heroes, they were these really basic creations that moved around like dragonflies. They looked like this:

My question is, where were they officially referred to as “Acid Fly”? Was it in the credits of Heroes or something? Or was it just a popularized misconception of a nameless thing? BioSector01 refer to it as such and you know how careful they are with their information.

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Supposedly Balta calls them Acid Flies in-game. See here: BIONICLEsector01

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Huh. In like a cutscene or in-game text?

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Not sure, but here’s the discussion on BS01.

Anyway, the Acid Fly image has been removed from the Rahi page until we get further confirmation.

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Sort of unrelated, but I can’t be the only one that found Hewkii’s tendency to torture these poor animals to death quite disturbing. I mean, he bends their wings backwards while the creature screams and eventually dies. All the Toa kills these creatures, but all the others at least do it quickly. Hewkii is just a psychopath.

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So, to close the case, the dragonfly Rahi of the BIONICLE Heroes was called an Acid Fly on a random wiki (Acid Fly | Bionicle Games Wiki | Fandom) and I was brave enough to assume it has an official source. After searching for a mention of this rahi for months, I finally find the only one official mention of the Rahi, and it was made by Mutran in BL9: Shadows in the Sky

“Icarax?” said Mutran. “For a handful of Toa and half a village of Matoran? Isn’t that like calling in
a Tahtorak to squash an acidfly?"

So yeah, the Bionicle Games Wiki was wrong, and this sentence is the reason why the Acidfly is a canon Rahi