order Diptera

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order Diptera - 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 fliesDipteraanimal order - the order of animalsclass Hexapoda, class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta - insects; about five-sixths of all known animal speciesdipteran, 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 piercingCecidomyidae, family Cecidomyidae - gall midgesMuscoidea, superfamily Muscoidea - two-winged flies especially the families: Muscidae; Gasterophilidae; Calliphoridae; Tachinidaefamily Muscidae, Muscidae - two-winged flies especially the houseflyfly - two-winged insects characterized by active flightfamily Glossinidae, Glossinidae - flies closely related to the Muscidae: tsetse fliesCalliphoridae, family Calliphoridae - blowfliesfamily Tachinidae, Tachinidae - parasites on other insectsfamily Gasterophilidae, Gasterophilidae - horse botfliesCuterebridae, family Cuterebridae - New World botfliesfamily Hypodermatidae, family Oestridae, Hypodermatidae, Oestridae - warble fliesfamily Tabanidae, Tabanidae - horsefliesBombyliidae, family Bombyliidae - bee fliesAsilidae, family Asilidae - robber fliesfamily Trephritidae, family Trypetidae, Trephritidae, Trypetidae - fruit flies; some leaf minersDrosophilidae, family Drosophilidae - fruit fliesfamily Hippoboscidae, Hippoboscidae - winged or wingless dipterans: louse fliesgenus Haematobia, Haematobia - European genus of bloodsucking fliesNematocera, suborder Nematocera - mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand fliesfamily Simuliidae, Simuliidae - blackflies and sand flies