Definition of Suborder Nematocera

1. Noun. Mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Suborder Nematocera

suborder Lipotyphla
suborder Maniraptora
suborder Manteodea
suborder Marginocephalia
suborder Megachiroptera
suborder Megaloptera
suborder Menotyphla
suborder Menurae
suborder Microchiroptera
suborder Mugiloidea
suborder Myomorpha
suborder Mysticeti
suborder Myxiniformes
suborder Myxinoidei
suborder Natantia
suborder Nematocera (current term)
suborder Nothosauria
suborder Odontoceti
suborder Ophidia
suborder Ornithomimida
suborder Ornithopoda
suborder Oscines
suborder Osteostraci
suborder Otides
suborder Pachycephalosaurus
suborder Percoidea
suborder Petromyzoniformes
suborder Pinnipedia
suborder Plesiosauria

Literary usage of Suborder Nematocera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Field Book of Insects: With Special Reference to Those of Northeastern by Frank Eugene Lutz (1918)
"Suborder NEMATOCERA 3. Antennae are usually composed of 3 joints, usually with a differentiated style or bristle (the last joint sometimes annulated). ..."

2. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1916)
"... to the suborder Nematocera. These have long articulated antennae and include four families: Culicidae, Chironomidae, ..."

3. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"... belong to the suborder Nematocera. These have long articulated antennae and include four families: Culicidae, ..."

4. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"... belong to the suborder Nematocera. These have long articulated antenna? and include four families: Culicidae, Chironomidae, ..."

5. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1920)
"... belong to the suborder Nematocera. These have long articulated antenna; and include four families: ..."

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