An order of the class Insecta. Wings, when present, number two and distinguish Diptera from other so-called flies, while the halteres, or reduced hindwings, separate Diptera from other insects with one pair of wings. The order includes the families Calliphoridae, Oestridae, Phoridae, SARCOPHAGIDAE, Scatophagidae, Sciaridae, SIMULIIDAE, Tabanidae, Therevidae, Trypetidae, CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICIDAE; DROSOPHILIDAE; GLOSSINIDAE; MUSCIDAE; TEPHRITIDAE; and PSYCHODIDAE. The larval form of Diptera species are called maggots (see LARVA).
    

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Twelve flies (Muscæ species). Coloured etching by M. Harris, ca. 1766.

The larva and fly of the sheep-nostril-fly (Oestrus ovis). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.

The larva and fly of a house fly (Musca domestica). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.

lucillia coeruleiviridis (Blow-fly) on saxifrage umbrosa

Seven flies (Muscæ species) and two bee flies (Bombylius species). Coloured etching by M. Harris, ca. 1766.

Studies on the mouth parts and sucking apparatus in the blood-sucking Diptera. No. 1, Philaematomyia insignis, Austen / by F.W. Cragg.

Fifteen different insects and the plants they live on. Engraving by I. Taylor.

The sheep nostril fly (Oestrus ovis). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.

I am a Cox's D.D.T. parrot : perch me in your room and I will kill all those flies / [James Cox & Co.].

Notes on entomological problems of medical importance in the Near and Middle East / by C.C. Deonier.

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Studies on the mouth parts and sucking apparatus in the blood-sucking Diptera. No. 1, Philaematomyia insignis, Austen / by F.W. Cragg.

Fifteen different insects and the plants they live on. Engraving by I. Taylor.

The sheep nostril fly (Oestrus ovis). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.

I am a Cox's D.D.T. parrot : perch me in your room and I will kill all those flies / [James Cox & Co.].

Notes on entomological problems of medical importance in the Near and Middle East / by C.C. Deonier.