diptera
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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 (synset 102190717)is a type of: animal order - the order of animalsmember holonym:- dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects - 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
- cecidomyidae, family cecidomyidae - gall midges
- muscoidea, superfamily muscoidea - two-winged flies especially the families: Muscidae; Gasterophilidae; Calliphoridae; Tachinidae
- family muscidae, muscidae - two-winged flies especially the housefly
- fly - two-winged insects characterized by active flight
- family glossinidae, glossinidae - flies closely related to the Muscidae: tsetse flies
- calliphoridae, family calliphoridae - blowflies
- family tachinidae, tachinidae - parasites on other insects
- family gasterophilidae, gasterophilidae - horse botflies
- cuterebridae, family cuterebridae - New World botflies
- family hypodermatidae, family oestridae, hypodermatidae, oestridae - warble flies
- family tabanidae, tabanidae - horseflies
- bombyliidae, family bombyliidae - bee flies
- asilidae, family asilidae - robber flies
- family trephritidae, family trypetidae, trephritidae, trypetidae - fruit flies; some leaf miners
- drosophilidae, family drosophilidae - fruit flies
- family hippoboscidae, hippoboscidae - winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies
- genus haematobia, haematobia - European genus of bloodsucking flies
- nematocera, suborder nematocera - mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies
- family simuliidae, simuliidae - blackflies and sand flies
belongs to: class hexapoda, class insecta, hexapoda, insecta - insects; about five-sixths of all known animal speciessame as: order diptera
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