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Definition of Dipterous insect
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 Dipterous Insect
Literary usage of Dipterous insect
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1885)
"What, then, is this dipterous insect ? In the absence of direct information, I
conceive that Mr. Farmer must have fallen into a mistake; that the chrysalis, ..."
2. Indian Museum Notes by Indian Museum (1891)
"The "midge" proves to be itself a dipterous insect; it could not however be
identified precisely in the Museum, and will therefore be sent to Europe for ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"goad or sting domestic animals, as a breeze, breeze-fly, or horse-fly; specifically,
a dipterous insect of the family Tabani- dœ and suborder Brachycera, ..."
4. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Scienceedited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1880)
"The larva of a male dipterous insect is represented feeding on the sporangia.
... Enlarged drawing of larva of dipterous insect, found feeding on sporangia ..."
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