It was November, a season of heavy dipterous mortality.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
Grasshoppers and other Orthoptera were rare, as were Hemiptera; Tipula was the common dipterous insect, with a small sand-fly: there were neither leeches, mosquitos, ticks, nor midges.
"Himalayan Journals V2."
J. D. Hooker
Many species of birds have their particular lice; but the hirundines alone seem to be annoyed with dipterous insects, which infest every species, and are so large, in proportion to themselves, that they must be truly irksome and injurious to them.
"The-Natural-History-of-Selborne"
White, Gilbert