Dipterous - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: dipterousPseudo dipteral
Falsely or imperfectly dipteral as a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great being equal to two intercolumns and one column...
bee fly
any dipterous insect of the family Bombyliidae which eat nectar and in some cases resemble bees Their larvae are parasitic on the larvae of bees and other insects...
Berna fly
A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast where the larvaelig do great injury...
Bombyliidae
a natural family of dipterous insects comprising the bee flies...
Botfly
A dipterous insect of the family Estridaelig of many different species some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals as the horse ox and sheep on which they deposit their eggs A common species is one of the botflies of the horse Gastrophilus equi the larvaelig of which bots are taken into the stomach of the animal where they live several months and pass through their larval states In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin and another in the stomach See Gadfly...
Breeze
A fly of various species of the family Tabanidaelig noted for buzzing about animals and tormenting them by sucking their blood called also horsefly and gadfly They are among the largest of two winged or dipterous insects The name is also given to different species of botflies...
Cecidomyia
A genus of small dipterous files including several very injurious species as the Hessian fly See Hessian fly...
Dipteral
Having two wings only belonging to the order Diptera...
Dipterous
Having two wings as certain insects belonging to the order Diptera...
Drone fly
A dipterous insect Eristalis tenax resembling the drone bee See Eristalis...
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