There is noDipterous or Hymenopterous genus in which ten or more species are so intimately known in the larval stage that they can be employed for the purposes of morphological comparison.
A tribe or family of dipterous flies whose larvæ live in decayed wood.
Flabs: the lobes at the tip of the dipterous mouth:= labella; q.
Eucephalous: with a well-developed head, bearing the normal appendages: applied to certain dipterous larvae.
Dipterocecidium: a gall formed by a dipterous insect.
Have not the fleas moreover become adapted to conditions of life widely different from those of all other Diptera, whilst their larvæ do not differ in this respect from many other Dipterous larvæ?
The changes in question (Dipterous larvæ) go still further and are more profound.
Abyssinian dipterous insect, like the tsetse, hurtful to cattle.
Some dipterous insects--though these in general neither offend nor delight us by it--are distinguished by their smell.
Asilus crabroniformis, a dipterous insect, once when I took it, emitted a white milky fluid from its proboscis, the joints of the legs and abdomen, and the anus.
Another dipterous larva (Corethra culiciformis), which much resembles that of the gnat in form, differs from it in its motions and station of repose.
In a work like this the generic and specific characters of these parasites need not be given: they do not seem to differ much from hymenopterous and dipterous insects of other countries.
While this sphynx is still a caterpillar, a dipterous tachinaria takes possession of it to feed her young ones.
In this category are generally found parasitical hymenopterous and dipterous insects.
The Melophagus of the sheep is a wingless dipterous insect, like 177 the Lipoptena of the stag.
The oestri are dipterous like ordinary flies; but instead of passing their youth on some waste organic matter, they live in the nostrils or the stomach of some hairy animal, and undergo all their metamorphoses in the interior of its body.
More than one expedition has failed on account of this dipterous fly.
But it is impossible here to attempt even a sketch of the variations in these organs which take place in the apterous genera, and in many of the dipterous larvae.
It moved, like other dipterous larvae, by means of its mandibles.
These, which are peculiar to flies and some other dipterous genera, may be termed cased-nymphs[93].
No Dipterous larva, so far as I know, belongs truly to this type; in fact, the early stages of the pupa in the Diptera seem in some respects to correspond to the larvae of other Insect orders.
A genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the Hessian fly.
A genus of dipterous insects, including the gnat and mosquito.
Mr. MacLeay, thinking it indisputable that the Perlidae should be included in this Order, suggests the propriety of changing its name, both as inapplicable, and as being preoccupied by a Dipterous genus.
Meigen has figured a Dipterous insect exactly resembling a Cimbex, which he calls Aspistes berolinensis (Dipt.
Jurine was the first Entomologist who made that circumstance the keystone of a system; which indeed he restricted to Hymenopterous and Dipterous insects, but which might be extended much further.
He tried the same experiment with some Dipterous pupae; but the heat was too great for them, and they all perished[1580].
They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects.
Having remained in the earth for a period of six or seven weeks they finally emerge from their pupal-cocoons as perfect dipterous insects.
Amongst the numerous other parasitic dipterous larvæ one must notice the rat-tailed maggots (Helophilus).
In regard to the so-called freedipterous parasites and other noxious insects that attack ruminants, their name is legion.
Their store of food, which they lay up for their young, mostly consists of dipterous insects, and various species of gnats are used for this purpose.
Defn: A genus ofdipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick.
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).
Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly.
Defn: A small dipterous fly of the genus Oscinis, esp.
Defn: A genus of dipterous insects, including the common house fly, and numerous allied species.
Defn: Bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous larvæ which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.
Defn: Any one of many species of long-legged dipterous insects belonging to Tipula and allied genera.
Defn: A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water.
Defn: A division ofdipterous insects in which the proboscis is large and contains lancelike mandibles and maxillæ.
Defn: Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidæ, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.
Defn: Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.
Dipterous Gall flies are now laying their eggs in cereals.
BOT'FLY, a family of dipterous insects, resembling the blue-bottle fly, which deposit their eggs on cattle.
DIP'TERAN, a dipterous insect; DIP'TEROS, a building with double peristyle or colonnade.
The dipterous garden pests, such as the onion fly, carrot fly and celery fly, can best be kept in check by the use of paraffin emulsions and the treatment of the soil with gas-lime after the crop is lifted.
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