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Dipteran
Dipteran meaning
An insect of the large order Diptera; a fly.
Synonyms of Dipteran
Example sentences (3)
Some insects, such as the Dipteran families Tephritidae and Pyrgotidae have well-developed ovipositors only partly retracted when not in use, and the part that sticks out is called the scape or oviscape, meaning the stalk of the ovipositor.
Some of these include dipteran flies, citation Pyemotes mites, and a large number of nematode parasites.
There, he met the curator of the entomological collection, the Dipteran expert Fritz Isidor van Emden.