| NOUN | animal | gall gnat, gall midge, gallfly | fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants |
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| Meaning | Fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants. | |
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| Synonyms | gall midge, gallfly | |
| Member of | Cecidomyidae, family Cecidomyidae | gall midges |
| Narrower | Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor | small fly whose larvae damage wheat and other grains |
| Broader | 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 |
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