dipterous insect

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dipterous insect - 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 piercingdipteran, dipteron, two-winged insectshaltere, balancer, halter - either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flightinsect - small air-breathing arthropodDiptera, order Diptera - 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 fliesgall gnat, gall midge, gallfly - fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plantsfly - two-winged insects characterized by active flightbee killer, robber fly - swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wingfruit fly, pomace fly - any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruitshippoboscid, louse fly - bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammalsmosquito - two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animalsgnat - any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand fliesfungus gnat - mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetationfungus gnat, sciara, sciarid - minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlingscrane fly, daddy longlegs - long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite