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.
The order of true flies. The word Diptera litteraly means "to move in or pass through the air with wings".
the true flies, an order of insects with sucking mouth parts; nearly all posses a hind pair of wings modified to serve as stabilizers during flight (Morris 1992).
( di = two; ptera = wings) the flies, gnats, midges, and mosquitoes.
an order of insects consisting of two-winged flies
The order made up of flies. Diptera means "two-wings;" flies only use two wings to fly.
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
Order of insects that has only two wings (one pair). Most other insect Orders have four wings (two pairs).
Insect order consisting of true flies. Important plant pests include the cabbage root maggot, Hessian fly (wheat), Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly), and Caribbean fruit fly.
An order of insects that is comprised of at least 100,000 different kinds of flies, mosquitoes, midges, gnats, and dozens of others. The only common characteristics is that they have a single pair of wings and unusually large eyes. It is reported that flies can carry up to two million bacteria each (who counted them was not part of the report).
a large group (Order) of insects that are abundant almost everywhere and include mosquitoes, flies, gnats and midges. Diptera (from di = two and ptera = wing) are distinguished from other Orders of insects by having only one pair of wings, with the second pair instead reduced to small knobbed structures called "halteres" that aid in maintaining equilibrium. Some diptera are vectors of diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, filariasis, and the arboviruses, while others are important pollinators and pest predators and parasites. Diptera undergo complete metamorphosis, which means that they change form during development (see larvae and pupae.)
The insect order that includes midges.
Diptera (di - two, ptera - wings), or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 200,000 species, although under half of these (about 85,000 species) have been described. It is one of the major insect orders both in terms of ecological and human (medical and economic) importance.