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DIPTERA
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I. (noun)
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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
Synonyms:
Diptera; order Diptera
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Diptera" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Diptera"):
family Simuliidae; Simuliidae (blackflies and sand flies)
Nematocera; suborder Nematocera (mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies)
genus Haematobia; Haematobia (European genus of bloodsucking flies)
family Hippoboscidae; Hippoboscidae (winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies)
Drosophilidae; family Drosophilidae (fruit flies)
family Trephritidae; family Trypetidae; Trephritidae; Trypetidae (fruit flies; some leaf miners)
Asilidae; family Asilidae (robber flies)
Bombyliidae; family Bombyliidae (bee flies)
family Tabanidae; Tabanidae (horseflies)
family Hypodermatidae; family Oestridae; Hypodermatidae; Oestridae (warble flies)
Cuterebridae; family Cuterebridae (New World botflies)
family Gasterophilidae; Gasterophilidae (horse botflies)
family Tachinidae; Tachinidae (parasites on other insects)
Calliphoridae; family Calliphoridae (blowflies)
family Glossinidae; Glossinidae (flies closely related to the Muscidae: tsetse flies)
fly (two-winged insects characterized by active flight)
family Muscidae; Muscidae (two-winged flies especially the housefly)
Muscoidea; superfamily Muscoidea (two-winged flies especially the families: Muscidae; Gasterophilidae; Calliphoridae; Tachinidae)
Cecidomyidae; family Cecidomyidae (gall midges)
dipteran; dipteron; dipterous insect; 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)
Holonyms ("Diptera" is a member of...):
class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta (insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species)
Derivation:
dipterous (of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera)
