Meanings of diptera in English

You could hardly want to catalogue him with the diptera or hymenoptera?

I fancy these bloodthirsty diptera guard the Brazilian frontier considerably better than the poverty-stricken soldiers we see on the bank.

That it is especially fond of insects is shown by the great activity it displays, when in captivity, in capturing house-flies and other diptera.

I have been idly watching bees of several genera and diptera fertilising O. morio at this place, and it is a very pretty sight.

The land evertebrates were so sparingly represented, that only three diptera, one species of hymenoptera, and some insect larvæ and spiders could be collected.

The flowers of Hottonia are cross-fertilised, according to Muller, chiefly by Diptera.

The most numerous were Machilis, Vitrina, Lithobius, Talitrus, some Diptera and beetles.

Perhaps the Diptera have their seasons of unusual multiplication and emigration.

Nobody likes to dwell under a perpetual drizzle of Diptera, dead or alive.

These consisted chiefly of Diptera, with some Hymenoptera, Homoptera, Coleoptera, and a moth.

Swarms of Diptera may be seen on any bright day dancing in the sunlight.

Rudiments of two hinder wings are seen in the class Diptera, or two-winged insects

A total of eight Diptera and two Coleoptera species were sampled on the corpses.

Treat informs me that the plants which she cultivated in New Jersey chiefly caught Diptera.

I fall back upon earlier Diptera: Eristales, or Drone-flies.

They consist of various Diptera, including some Anthrax-flies.