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Definition of Diptera
1. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Dipteran, Dipteron, Dipterous Insect, Two-winged Insects, Cecidomyidae, Family Cecidomyidae, Muscoidea, Superfamily Muscoidea, Family Muscidae, Muscidae, Fly, Family Glossinidae, Glossinidae, Calliphoridae, Family Calliphoridae, Family Tachinidae, Tachinidae, Family Gasterophilidae, Gasterophilidae, Cuterebridae, Family Cuterebridae, Family Hypodermatidae, Family Oestridae, Hypodermatidae, Oestridae, Family Tabanidae, Tabanidae, Bombyliidae, Family Bombyliidae, Asilidae, Family Asilidae, Family Trephritidae, Family Trypetidae, Trephritidae, Trypetidae, Drosophilidae, Family Drosophilidae, Family Hippoboscidae, Hippoboscidae, Genus Haematobia, Haematobia, Nematocera, Suborder Nematocera, Family Simuliidae, Simuliidae
Derivative terms: Dipterous
Definition of Diptera
1. n. pl. 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 maxillæ) with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo a complete metamorphosis, their larvæ (called maggots) being usually without feet.
Definition of Diptera
1. dipteron [n] - See also: dipteron
Medical Definition of Diptera
1. Order of insects with one pair of wings, the second pair being modified into balancing organs, the halteres, the mouthparts are modified for sucking or piercing. The insects show complete metamorphosis in that they have larval, pupal and imaginal stages. The order includes the flies and mosquitoes, best known genera are Anopheles and Drosophila. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diptera
Literary usage of Diptera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"THIS definition of the Diptera, or two-winged flies, is framed without reference
to the fleas, which are wingless, or to a few other parasitic wingless ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"In structure ;hey resemble the common house-fly more than the Diptera we have
... The sucking apparatus of the Diptera consists of a suctorial proboscis, ..."
3. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1912)
"On page 326 of the cited paper, in commenting on the number of antenna! joints in
the different families of Diptera, he says: " We are at once struck with ..."
4. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"The most numerous of all of the orders of insects are the Coleoptera, or beetles,
the Hy- menoptera, which we have just discussed, and the Diptera, ..."
5. Transactions of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1869)
"Five galls, produced by N. American Diptera on the golden rod ( Solidago) have
hitherto been described; the history of three of them is complete, ..."
6. Public Health Papers and Reports by American Public Health Association (1898)
"Besides these the proboscis of some diptera is thin, penetrating and well ...
Other diptera which are infected, either in their bodies or in the hairs that ..."
7. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1919)
"271-281), the author tied a list of the Diptera of Jamaica, based on a collection
made by rm. J. Fox and the writer at Kingston and Port Antonio in April e ..."
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