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Also known as flies
common name of small flying insects, especially Diptera
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- insect
- Has part
- Piophilidae
- Image
- A Fly by Matthias Zimmermann.jpg
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- different from
- Musca
- topic's main category
- Category:Flies
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Encyclopedic overview
An Anthomyiid species showing characteristic dipteran features: large eyes, small antennae, sucking mouthparts, single pair of flying wings, hindwings reduced to clublike halteres
A fly (pl. flies) is an insect of the order Diptera (from Ancient Greek δι- di- 'two' and πτερόν pteron 'wing'), named for the single pair of wings. The hindwings have evolved into halteres, organs that sense rotation, giving flies precise control of their flight. Diptera is a large order containing more than 150,000 species, including horse-flies, crane flies, hoverflies, mosquitoes and others.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “fly” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.