The document discusses the order Diptera, which includes flies and mosquitoes. It has 3 suborders - Nematocera, Brachocera, and Cyclorrhapha - which are distinguished based on antennae structure, mesopleural structure, presence of disc cell, and cubital wing vein closure. Nematocera contains 6 families including craneflies, sandflies, mosquitoes, midges, fungus gnats, and black flies. Brachocera contains 3 families - horse flies, robber flies, and bee flies. Cyclorrhapha contains 7 families such as hoverflies, fruit flies, drosophila, bot flies, house flies, warble flies, and

2. Order:
“Diptera”
Presented To:
“Dr Anjum Aqeel”
Presented By:
“Shahzaib Ali”
Roll No:
BAGF13E274 Sr# 03
ENT-504

3. Di=Two
Ptera=wings
Examples:Flies,Mosquitoes etc.
Characteristics:
 One pair of wing, Hind wing is Haltare
 Antennae and Mouth Parts are varying in types

4. Sub-Orders
It has 3 Sub-Orders
1)Nematocera 2)Brachocera 3)Cyclorrhapha
a)Antennae
 Many Segmented
 Longer than Head and Thorax
a)Antennae
 3 segmented
 Shorter than Head and Thorax
a)Antennae
 3 Segmented
 Arista on it due to Aristate Antennae
b)Mesopleural Structure
 Straight
b)Mesopleural Structure
 Bended
b)Mesopleural Structure
 Bended
c)Disc Cell
 Present
c)Disc Cell
 Absent
c)Disc Cell
 Absent
d)Cubital cell
 In wing,Cubitus is Open
d)Cubital cell
 In Wing,Cubitus is closed
d)Cubital cell
 In wing,Cubitus is Closed

5. Families
A)Nematocera:
It has 6 Families
1)Tipulidae: (e.g Cran Fly)
 Antennae is long and 6 Segmented
 Legs are very Long

6. 2)Psychodidae: (e.g Sand Fly)
 Very Small size insect looks like a moth
 Legs and body are covered with hairs
 Radius vein is 4 Branches and No cross vein

7. 3)Culicidae: (e.g Mosquitoes Culex & Anopheles)
a)Antennae is Plumose
Male Mosquito
Dense hairs
b)Antennae is Pilose
Female Mosquito
Thin hairs

8. 4)Cecidomydae: (e.g Midges)
• Very minute and delicate insect
• Antennae is Moniliform and hairs on body
• Wings have less no of Longitudinal Veins
• Tibia has Spur on it

9. 5)Mycetophilidae: (e.g Fungus gnates)
a. Antennae is fairly Long & without hairs
b. Tibia has spur on it

10. 6)Simuliidae: (e.g Black fly or Biting fly)
 Body is stout(hard Exo-skeleton)
 Antennae is very short & 11 Segmented
 Wings are broad
 Legs are very short

11. B)Brachocera:
It has 3 Families
1)Tabanidae: (e.g Common House flies)
 3rd Antennal segment is annulated
 Squama(Structure at the base of haltare and maintining for balance) is present

12. 2)Asilidae: (e.g Robber flies)
 Radius(R1) Vein is very Long
 Media(M1) is very short
 Media terminates before the apex of wing

13. 3)Bombyliidae: (e.g Bee flies)
 Body have pubescent(densely) hairs on it
 Proboscis is very long
 Legs are long and Rudemantry

14. C)Cyclorrhapha:
It has 7 Families
1)Syrphidae: (e.g Syrphid fly/Hover fly/Flower fly)
Moderate to large size insect
Body with light yellow colour margins
Abdomen black colour

15. 2)Tephritidae: (e.g Fruit fly)
 Few of its species,wings are bended
 Sub-Costa ends abruptly

16. 3)Drosophilidae: (e.g Drosophila)
 Post-Occular bristle convergent
 Body is Stout/Swollen

17. 4)Gastriphilidae: (e.g Bot flies)
a. Flies resemble with honey bees in general appearance
b. Mouth parts are vestigial(Non functioning)
c. Oral opening(Mouth cavity) of mouth is rounded and minute

18. 5)Muscidae: (e.g House fly)
 Medium sized
 Gray coloured
 Red eyes
 Oral Opening and Mouth parts are normal

19. 6)Oestridae: (e.g Warbal flies)
 Body is fuzzy with long dense hairs
 Oral opening(Mouth cavity) is small and triangular

20. 7)Hippoboscidae: (e.g Forest fly)
 Ectoparasite of horse and many other Cattles
 Head is Sunkened into Thorax
 Antennae is inserted in depression
 Legs are short and stout
 Claws short and often toothed