diptera

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An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of sharp organs (mandibles and maxillae) with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo a complete metamorphosis, their larvae (called maggots) being usually without feet.

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Among the Diptera, Lucilia spp. are abundant, and among the Hymenoptera, honey bees ( Apis dorsata and A. cerana ) and the stingless bee genus Trigona are the major visitors. Source: Internet

Besides his 300-page revision of the Tylidae (now classed as Micropezidae ), there were further papers on Diptera and the agamid genus Draco of gliding lizards. Source: Internet

In the same year, he published his Basic outline of a theory of phylogenetic systematics, and further works on the methodology of phylogenetic systematics followed in the ensuing years, accompanied by numerous taxonomic works about Diptera. Source: Internet

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