Dipterous Insect

Of insect and Diptera.   May also be referred to as dipteran, dipteron and two-winged insects.

Insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing.

This concept's ID is @1~11329

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  • fly 9 facts

    Two-winged insects characterized by active flight.

  • mosquito 7 facts

    Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood...

  • gnat 5 facts

    Any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies.

  • fruit fly 4 facts

    Any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits.

  • louse fly 2 facts

    Bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals.

  • gallfly 1 facts

    Fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants.

  • fungus gnat 1 facts

    Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.

  • daddy longlegs 0 facts

    Long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite.

  • robber fly 0 facts

    Swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking...

  • halter 0 facts

    Either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium...

  • fungus gnat 0 facts

    Mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation.