dipterous insect

Noun

1.

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 Synonyms: dipteran, dipteron, two-winged insects

balancer, bee killer, crane fly, daddy longlegs, Diptera, dipteran, dipteron, fly, fruit fly, fungus gnat, gall gnat, gall midge, gallfly, gnat, halter, haltere, hippoboscid, insect, louse fly, mosquito, order Diptera, pomace fly, robber fly, sciara, sciarid, two-winged insects