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
Contains
- fly
Two-winged insects characterized by active flight.
- mosquito
Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood...
- gnat
Any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies.
- fruit fly
Any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits.
- louse fly
Bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals.
- gallfly
Fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants.
- fungus gnat
Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
- daddy longlegs
Long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite.
- robber fly
Swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking...
- halter
Either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium...
- fungus gnat
Mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation.