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Definition of Two-winged insects
1. Noun. 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.
Terms within: Balancer, Halter, Haltere
Generic synonyms: Insect
Group relationships: Diptera, Order Diptera
Specialized synonyms: Gall Gnat, Gall Midge, Gallfly, Fly, Bee Killer, Robber Fly, Fruit Fly, Pomace Fly, Hippoboscid, Louse Fly, Mosquito, Gnat, Fungus Gnat, Fungus Gnat, Sciara, Sciarid, Crane Fly, Daddy Longlegs
Lexicographical Neighbors of Two-winged Insects
Literary usage of Two-winged insects
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Young Folks Pictures and Stories of Animals by Abby Amy Tenney (1890)
"... and in this way they make a buzzing or humming sound, which sometimes is not
very pleasant to hear. The most common of the two-winged insects, ..."
2. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of the by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"... or Butterflies and Moths; Half-winged Insects, or Bugs and Frog-hoppers;
two-winged insects, or Flics. We proceed to notice these orders separately. ..."
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