Noun: two-winged insects
- 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
"Houseflies and mosquitoes are common examples of two-winged insects";
- dipterous insect, dipteran, dipteron
Type of: insect
Part of: Diptera, order Diptera