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Diptera

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: order Diptera.



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... HALESIA DIPTERA (syn H. reticulata).—North America, 1758. This is not so suitable for our climate as H. tetraptera, though in southern parts of the country it forms a neat, healthy bush, and flowers freely. It is distinguished, as the ...
— Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs • A. D. Webster



Words linked to "Diptera" :   Oestridae, Muscidae, family Oestridae, Drosophilidae, Tachinidae, two-winged insects, Asilidae, Calliphoridae, class Insecta, Tabanidae, Insecta, dipterous insect, superfamily Muscoidea, Glossinidae, family Calliphoridae, Cecidomyidae, fly, family Bombyliidae, Hypodermatidae, Trephritidae, dipterous, Hippoboscidae, family Cecidomyidae, family Hypodermatidae, Cuterebridae, Simuliidae, family Trypetidae, Bombyliidae, genus Haematobia, family Simuliidae, Nematocera, family Muscidae, family Gasterophilidae, family Cuterebridae, class Hexapoda, family Drosophilidae, dipteron, family Tabanidae, family Glossinidae, animal order, Trypetidae, family Asilidae, Muscoidea, Gasterophilidae, Hexapoda, family Tachinidae, family Hippoboscidae, suborder Nematocera, Haematobia, family Trephritidae



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