two-winged insects

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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 piercingdipteran, dipteron, dipterous insecthaltere, balancer, halter - either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flightinsect - small air-breathing arthropodDiptera, 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 fliesgall gnat, gall midge, gallfly - fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plantsfly - two-winged insects characterized by active flightbee killer, robber fly - swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wingfruit fly, pomace fly - any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruitshippoboscid, louse fly - bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammalsmosquito - two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animalsgnat - any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand fliesfungus gnat - mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetationfungus gnat, sciara, sciarid - minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlingscrane fly, daddy longlegs - long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite