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 piercing dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect haltere, balancer, halter - either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight insect - small air-breathing arthropod Diptera, 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 flies gall gnat, gall midge, gallfly - fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants fly - two-winged insects characterized by active flight bee 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 wing fruit fly, pomace fly - any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits hippoboscid, louse fly - bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals mosquito - two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals gnat - any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies fungus gnat - mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation fungus gnat, sciara, sciarid - minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings crane fly, daddy longlegs - long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite