WordNet
dipterous insect
n. 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 [syn: two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron]
Usage examples of "dipterous insect".
Time for a replacement of both Behren and his dipterous insect, both of them with one arboreal, American orthopterous katydid.