English > Diptera: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | 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. |
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| Synonym | order Diptera |
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| Member of | Insecta, class Insecta, Hexapoda, class Hexapoda | insects |
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| Members | Asilidae, family Asilidae | robber flies |
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| Bombyliidae, family Bombyliidae | bee flies |
| Calliphoridae, family Calliphoridae | blowflies |
| Cecidomyidae, family Cecidomyidae | gall midges |
| Cuterebridae, family Cuterebridae | New World botflies |
| Drosophilidae, family Drosophilidae | fruit flies |
| Gasterophilidae, family Gasterophilidae | horse botflies |
| Glossinidae, family Glossinidae | flies closely related to the Muscidae |
| Haematobia, genus Haematobia | European genus of bloodsucking flies |
| Hippoboscidae, family Hippoboscidae | winged or wingless dipterans |
| Muscidae, family Muscidae | Two-winged flies especially the housefly |
| Muscoidea, superfamily Muscoidea | Two-winged flies especially the families |
| Nematocera, suborder Nematocera | mosquitoes |
| Oestridae, family Oestridae, Hypodermatidae, family Hypodermatidae | warble flies |
| Simuliidae, family Simuliidae | blackflies and sand flies |
| Tabanidae, family Tabanidae | horseflies |
| Tachinidae, family Tachinidae | parasites on other insects |
| Trypetidae, family Trypetidae, Trephritidae, family Trephritidae | fruit flies |
| dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron | 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 |
| fly | two-winged insects characterized by active flight |
| Broader | animal order | The order of animals |
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| Spanish | dípteros |
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| Catalan | Diptera, Dípter, dípters |
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| Adjectives | dipterous | of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera |
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