dipteron
8 letters · noun · scores 2,200 in SpellHuntr
noun
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
Dipteron in a sentence
A larval dipteron which has been interpreted as a roundworm.
This gall was brought to me ten years ago. From my notes I gather it was probably made by a dipteron, but I failed to rear the flies.
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