1. 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, lapping or piercing
   "Mosquitoes are a well-known example of dipterans";
   - dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteron

Derived forms: dipterans

Type of: insect

Part of: Diptera, order Diptera

Encyclopedia: Dipteran