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Diptera

noun

A large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies. Synonym: order Diptera.

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... of Diptera, or two-winged flies, that closely resemble wasps and bees, and no doubt derive much benefit from the wholesome dread which those insects excite. The Midas dives, and other species of large Brazilian flies, have dark wings and metallic blue elongate bodies, ...

— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace

... mosquitoes, but the adult winged forms of an entirely different species and genus of fly; and the myriads of small flies, commonly supposed to be the young of larger flies, are adult forms belonging to different species of different genera, and perhaps of different families of the suborder of Diptera. The typical species of the genus Culex, to which the mosquito belongs, is Culex pipiens, described by Linnaeus, and there are already over thirty North American species of this genus described in various works. Few insects live in the sea, but along the coast ...

— Our Common Insects - A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, - Gardens and Houses • Alpheus Spring Packard

Words linked to "Diptera" : animal order, Calliphoridae, genus Haematobia, Cuterebridae, family Calliphoridae, Insecta, Gasterophilidae, Trephritidae, family Trypetidae, family Asilidae, family Tabanidae, dipteron, order Diptera, family Glossinidae, dipterous insect, Hypodermatidae, Bombyliidae, family Hypodermatidae, family Drosophilidae, Asilidae, Oestridae, Muscoidea, Cecidomyidae, suborder Nematocera, Nematocera, Drosophilidae, family Tachinidae, Muscidae, Glossinidae, family Muscidae, family Cecidomyidae, family Bombyliidae, fly, Trypetidae, class Insecta, Hexapoda, family Trephritidae, superfamily Muscoidea, family Oestridae, family Gasterophilidae, Tachinidae, family Simuliidae, dipterous, two-winged insects, Haematobia, family Hippoboscidae, Simuliidae, family Cuterebridae, Hippoboscidae, Tabanidae, class Hexapoda