Vi fant 1 definisjoner av dipterous insect på engelsk.
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| dipterous insect - 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 | ||
| two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron | ||
| insect small air-breathing arthropod | ||
| diptera, order diptera 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 | ||
| haltere, balancer, halter an acrobat who balances himself in difficult positions | ||
| gall gnat, gall midge, gallfly fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants | ||
| fly (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air | ||
| bee killer, robber fly swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing | ||
| fruit fly, pomace fly any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits | ||
| hippoboscid, louse fly bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals | ||
| mosquito two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals | ||
| gnat (British usage) mosquito | ||
| fungus gnat mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation | ||
| sciara, sciarid, fungus gnat mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation | ||