Diptera
- noun
- /ˈdɪptərə/
- Specialized
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Diptera
- Diptera is... ...approximately... ...two thirds of an inch which would put the time of death... ...at between 10 and 12 hours ago.
- Diptera: Culicidae
Examples
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The insects that usually arrive first are the Diptera, in particular the blow flies and the flesh flies.
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Diptera is... ...approximately... ...two thirds of an inch which would put the time of death... ...at between 10 and 12 hours ago.
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They're diptera eggs of some kind.
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In Nymphoides, four of the six pollinators are aquatic insects (Diptera; Van Der Welde and Van Der Heijden 1981).
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Of these 34 North American species (17 Homoptera, 15 Hymenoptera, 6 Lepidoptera, 4 Coleoptera, 1 Thysanoptera, and 1 Diptera), most have followed their introduced North American host plants, except for five broadly polyphagous species.
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Two of the four primary pollinators of Nuphar (Nymphaeaceae) species are aquatic beetles (Coleoptera) and flies (Diptera; Schneider and Moore 1977).
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Judging from the phylogenetically well-separated flies (order Diptera) and butterflies (order Lepidoptera), wing development is directed throughout the winged insects by an unchanged regulatory gene network.
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The insects that usually arrive first are the Diptera, in particular the blow flies and the flesh flies.
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Taxonomically, robber flies belong to the family Asilidae, in the order Diptera.
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Aedes albopictus Skuse (Diptera: Culicidae) is a mosquito species of major sanitary importance.
Synonyms
A large group of insects with one pair of wings and mouths that suck or pierce like flies and mosquitoes
Compounds
- Specialized
A large group of insects with one pair of wings and mouths that suck or pierce like flies and mosquitoes
Surface Forms
Morphology
Diptera = di + ptera
The word is formed from Greek combining forms di- (two) + -ptera (wings) used in scientific taxonomy; these are not productive standalone English morphemes for average learners, so the meaning is not transparently derivable from familiar English vocabulary.
Etymology
The word Diptera comes from Greek parts di- 'two' and -ptera 'wings'. So Diptera are insects with only one pair of wings, which is 'two' wings in total, like flies and mosquitoes.
