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Syrt :: Syrphus fly () Any one of numerous species of dipterous flies of the genus Syrphus and allied genera. They are usually bright-colored, with yellow bands, and hover around plants. The larvae feed upon plant lice, and are, therefore, very beneficial to agriculture..

Drone Fly :: Drone fly () A dipterous insect (Eristalis tenax), resembling the drone bee. See Eristalis..

Horsefly :: Horsefly (n.) Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append..

Tick :: Tick (n.) Any one of several species of dipterous insects having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under Bird) and sheep tick (see under Sheep)..

Tipula :: Tipula (n.) Any one of many species of long-legged dipterous insects belonging to Tipula and allied genera. They have long and slender bodies. See Crane fly, under Crane..

Gadfly :: Gadfly (n.) Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies..

Hippobosca :: Hippobosca (n.) A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick.

Culex :: Culex (n.) A genus of dipterous insects, including the gnat and mosquito..

Berna Fly :: 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 larvae do great injury..

Poiser :: Poiser (n.) The balancer of dipterous insects.

Pupigerous :: Pupigerous (a.) Bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous larvae which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.

Musca :: Musca (n.) A genus of dipterous insects, including the common house fly, and numerous allied species..

Cecidomyia :: Cecidomyia (n.) A genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the Hessian fly. See Hessian fly..

Miner :: Miner (n.) Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies..

Oscinian :: Oscinian (n.) Any one of numerous species of dipterous files of the family Oscinidae.

Tanystomata :: Tanystomata (n. pl.) A division of dipterous insects in which the proboscis is large and contains lancelike mandibles and maxillae. The horseflies and robber flies are examples.

Xylophagides :: Xylophagides (n. pl.) A tribe or family of dipterous flies whose larvae live in decayed wood. Some of the tropical species are very large.

Dipterous :: Dipterous (a.) Having two wings; two-winged.

Breeze Fly :: Breeze fly (n.) A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidae, 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..

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