Diptera
Of animal order and Insecta. May also be referred to as order Diptera.
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.
This concept's ID is @1~11328
Arthropod Family
- Calliphoridae
Blowflies.
- Trypetidae
Fruit flies; some leaf miners.
- Hippoboscidae
Winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies.
- Cecidomyidae
Gall midges.
- Cuterebridae
New World botflies.
- Oestridae
Warble flies.
- Muscidae
Two-winged flies especially the housefly.
- Glossinidae
Flies closely related to the Muscidae: tsetse flies.
- Tachinidae
Parasites on other insects.
- Gasterophilidae
Horse botflies.
- Tabanidae
Horseflies.
- Bombyliidae
Bee flies.
- Asilidae
Robber flies.
- Drosophilidae
Fruit flies.
- Simuliidae
Blackflies and sand flies.
- Muscoidea
Two-winged flies especially the families: Muscidae; Gasterophilidae; Calliphoridae; T...
Dipterous Insect
- dipterous insect
Insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the...
- fly
Two-winged insects characterized by active flight.
Also contains
- Nematocera
Mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies.
- Haematobia
European genus of bloodsucking flies.