Dipteran

Dear kkhan....... you have got a dipteran fly but not mosquito.. Dont worry it wont bite. I can only say it is same as house fly or stable fly.

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... then developed the metamorphosis stage later using old info from the original evolutionary process ? Hmm.... interesting.... It is seen that many Dipteran flies deposit there egg in caterpillars; so may be this is cause of gene tranfer some time and got new generation to evolve... :P

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... phylogenetic approaches that bacteriophage WO underwent recent lateral transfers between Wolbachia bacteria that coinfect host cells in the dipteran Drosophila simulans and the hymenopteran Nasonia vitripennis. These two cases, along with a previous report in the lepidopteran Ephestia cautella, ...

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... 36 subgroups by using (i) their spectra of toxicity to the lepidopterans Heliothis virescens, Pieris brassicae, and Spodoptera littoralis and the dipteran Aedes aegypti and (ii) their parasporal crystal morphology. A total of 55% of the isolates were not toxic to any of these insects at the concentrations ...

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... all groups it is already in. Anything that evolves from a fruit fly, no matter how much it diverges, would still be classified as a fruit fly, a dipteran, an insect, an arthropod, an animal, and so forth. 2. There are about 3,000 described species of fruit flies (family Drosophilidae; Wheeler ...

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