Brachycera
Brachycera (class Insecta, order Diptera) Suborder of flies whose members are recognizable from their wing venation and porrect palps. With one exception (Stratiomyidae) all Brachycera larvae have the head retractile within the thorax. The antennae usually have fewer than six segments, with exceptions where segments have fused as a secondary feature. There are 16 families.
More From encyclopedia.com
except , ex·cept / ikˈsept/ • prep. not including; other than: they work every day except Sunday. • conj. used before a statement that forms an exception to o… Exception , exception •ashen, fashion, passion, ration •abstraction, action, attraction, benefaction, compaction, contraction, counteraction, diffraction, enacti… Diptera , Diptera(two-winged flies, true flies; class Insecta, subclass Pterygota) Order of insects in which the adults have a single pair of membranous wings,… Kiwis , Apterygidae (kiwis; class Aves, order Apterygiformes) A family of fowl-sized, brown-grey ratites. They have short, muscular legs, and a long flexible… Wing , wing / wing/ • n. 1. any of a number of specialized paired appendages that enable some animals to fly, in particular: ∎ (in a bird) a modified foreli… Beetle , beetle, common name for insects of the order Coleoptera, which, with more than 300,000 described species, is the largest of the insect orders. Beetle…
You Might Also Like
NEARBY TERMS
Brachycera