noun
- 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.
- synonyms: order Diptera
- 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.
- synonyms: dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron
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