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Meanings of Diptera in English
Catalan
dípters 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 flies.
Usage of Diptera in English
1
The flowers of Hottonia are cross-fertilised, according to Muller, chiefly by Diptera.
2
The most numerous were Machilis, Vitrina, Lithobius, Talitrus, some Diptera and beetles.
3
Perhaps the Diptera have their seasons of unusual multiplication and emigration.
4
Nobody likes to dwell under a perpetual drizzle of Diptera, dead or alive.
5
These consisted chiefly of Diptera, with some Hymenoptera, Homoptera, Coleoptera, and a moth.
6
Swarms of Diptera may be seen on any bright day dancing in the sunlight.
7
Rudiments of two hinder wings are seen in the class Diptera, or two-winged insects
8
A total of eight Diptera and two Coleoptera species were sampled on the corpses.
9
Treat informs me that the plants which she cultivated in New Jersey chiefly caught Diptera.
10
I fall back upon earlier Diptera: Eristales, or Drone-flies.
11
They consist of various Diptera, including some Anthrax-flies.
12
These results constitute an evidence of morphine accumulation inside the cuticle of Diptera larvae during their development.
13
Flies (Diptera) are captured much oftener than other insects.
14
Unlike most insects, which have four wings, the flies, as their Latin name Diptera suggests, have only two.
15
Bennett found the undigested coats of the grains in the intestinal canal of pollen-eating Diptera; see 'Journal of Hort.
16
The input of CO 2 in light traps proved largely ineffective in improving the collections of both Diptera groups.
About this term
Frequent collocations
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