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DipteraInsecta In*sec"ta, n. pl. [NL. See Insect.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) One of the classes of Arthropoda, including
those that have one pair of antenn[ae], three pairs of
mouth organs, and breathe air by means of trache[ae],
opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this
sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and
the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See Insect, n.
2. (Zo["o]l.) In a more restricted sense, the Hexapoda alone.
See Hexapoda.
3. (Zo["o]l.) In the most general sense, the Hexapoda,
Myriapoda, and Arachnoidea, combined.
Note: The typical Insecta, or hexapod insects, are divided
into several orders, viz.: Hymenoptera, as the bees
and ants; Diptera, as the common flies and gnats;
Aphaniptera, or fleas; Lepidoptera, or moths and
butterflies; Neuroptera, as the ant-lions and
hellgamite; Coleoptera, or beetles; Hemiptera, as
bugs, lice, aphids; Orthoptera, as grasshoppers and
cockroaches; Pseudoneuroptera, as the dragon flies
and termites; Euplexoptera, or earwings; Thysanura,
as the springtails, podura, and lepisma. See these
words in the Vocabulary. Diptera
Diptera Dip"te*ra, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? with two wings, di-
= di`s- twice + ? feather, wing: cf. F. dipt[`e]re.]
(Zo["o]l.)
An extensive order of insects having only two functional
wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc.
They have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of
sharp organs (mandibles and maxill[ae]) with which they
pierce the skin of animals. They undergo a complete
metamorphosis, their larv[ae] (called maggots) being usually
without feet.
Meaning of Diptera from wikipedia
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Flies are
insects of the
order Diptera, the name
being derived from the Gr**** δι- di- "two", and πτερόν
pteron "wing".
Insects of this
order use only...
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Diptera is an
order of
winged insects commonly known as flies.
Diptera,
which are one of the most
successful groups of
organisms on Earth, are very diverse...
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differs in some
significant ways from the
broader morphology of insects. The
Diptera is a very
large and
diverse order of
mostly small to medium-sized insects...
- H.
diptera may
refer to:
Halesia diptera, a silverbell, a
shrub native to
southeast North America Hoya
diptera (Seemann, 1896), a
waxplant species in...
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Halesia diptera, the two-wing
silverbell or two-winged
snowdrop tree, is a
species in the
family Styracaceae,
native to the
southeastern United States...
- (
Diptera: Cecidomyidae)
Atrichopogon jacobsoni (
Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
Culicoides huffi (
Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
Culicoides peregrinus (
Diptera:...
- In
flies of the
order Diptera, the
prostigma (also
called stigma anteriore or
anterior spiracle) is the
anterior of the two
pairs of
spiracles opening...
- This is a list of the
families of the
order Diptera (true flies). The
classification is
based largely on Pape et al. (2011). Many of the
fossil species...
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Melisa diptera is a moth of the
family Erebidae. It was
described by
Francis Walker in 1854. It is
found in Cameroon, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo...
- A
maggot is the
larva of a fly (order
Diptera); it is
applied in
particular to the
larvae of
Brachycera flies, such as houseflies,
cheese flies, and blowflies...
