- dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron - 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
--1 is a kind of insect
--1 is a member of Diptera, order Diptera
--1 has parts: halter, haltere, balancer
--1 has particulars:gall midge, gallfly, gall gnat; fly; robber fly, bee killer; fruit fly, pomace fly; louse fly, hippoboscid; mosquito; gnat; fungus gnat; fungus gnat, sciara, sciarid; crane fly, daddy longlegs