insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing

minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects

minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water

a fly of the family Psychodidae

any of various small dipterous flies; bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis

small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals