English > two-winged insects: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | 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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| Synonyms | dipterous insect, dipteran, dipteron |
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| Member of | Diptera, order Diptera | A large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths |
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| Parts | halter, haltere, balancer | Either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects |
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| Narrower | crane fly, daddy longlegs | long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite |
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| fly | two-winged insects characterized by active flight |
| fruit fly, pomace fly | Any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits |
| fungus gnat | mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation |
| fungus gnat, sciara, sciarid | minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms / mushrooms and seedlings |
| gall midge, gallfly, gall gnat | Fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants |
| gnat | Any of various small biting flies |
| louse fly, hippoboscid | bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals |
| mosquito | Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals |
| robber fly, bee killer | swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing |
| Broader | insect | small air-breathing arthropod |
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| Spanish | díptero, dipteron, dipteros |
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| Catalan | dípter, dipteron |
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