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Definition of Dipteron
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
Definition of Dipteron
1. dipteran [n -TERA] - See also: dipteran
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dipteron
Literary usage of Dipteron
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Laboratory Guide to the Study of Parasitology by William Brodbeck Herms (1913)
"The more generalized type of dipteron mouthparts is found in the mosquito, hence
here we ... EXERCISE 3 INSECT MOUTHPARTS (cont.) E. dipteron type (cont. ..."
2. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"with four others of the same species. Both sexes were shown. BAT AND PARASITICAL
dipteron.—Mr. F. Muir exhibited two specimens of the bat ..."
3. Insect Life: Souvenirs of a Naturalist, J.-H. Fabre by Jean-Henri Fabre (1901)
"The ardent pursuer of Diptera is driven away by a dipteron, and that one of the
smallest! I bow before the facts without any hope of ever comprehending this ..."
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