Dipterous Insect (Noun)
Meaning
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.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Dipterous insects, such as mosquitoes and flies, can spread diseases through their bites.
- The order Diptera consists of dipterous insects with distinct body characteristics.
- Horseflies are dipterous insects with powerful mouth parts for piercing skin.
- Fruit flies are dipterous insects known for their rapid reproduction rates.
- Many species of dipterous insects are beneficial to the environment as decomposers.