Dipteron

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any fly of the taxonomic order Diptera.

    "The next species of Diptera are two female specimens of Trichomyia, bred about the end of May, following which is a dipteron new to the British list, Brachycoma erratica, Mgn., of the family Tachinidæ, kindly identified with the other Diptera of our cherry stump, by Dr. Meade, of Bradford, who has fully described this new species on page 110 in the May number of The Entomologists Monthly Magazine, 1894."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of dipteros. alt-of, alternative

    "It is also a Pseudodipteron, that is, a false Dipteron; for at first they us'd to build a Dipteron, that is, a double Wing, or Row of Pillars about; but Hermogenes afterwards brought up the Custom of taking away the inner Row of Pillars, so to make the Walking-Place more open, which sort of Wings is call'd Psuedodipteron, because they imitated the Form of the Dipteron."

  3. 3
    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 wordnet

Etymology

From translingual Diptera.

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