Diptera

order of insects
Taxon taxon Q25312
Diptera
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Diptera

Summary

Diptera is a taxon[1]. Diptera ranks in the top 0.33% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (25,227 views/month, #645 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Diptera's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Diptera is classified at the rank of order[4].
  • insect wing is named after Diptera[5].
  • Diptera belongs to the parent taxon Holometabola[6].
  • Diptera is classified within Antliophora[7].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Diptera is Diptera[8].
  • Diptera's Commons category is recorded as Diptera[9].
  • Diptera's temporal range start is recorded as Middle Triassic[10].
  • Diptera began on -245000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[11].
  • Diptera's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Flies[12].
  • Diptera's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • Diptera's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • Diptera's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • Diptera's taxon synonym is recorded as Nakridletia[16].
  • Diptera's topic has template is recorded as Template:Diptera[17].
  • Diptera is commonly known as {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'Vliegen en muggen'}[18].
  • Diptera is commonly known as {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'tovinger'}[19].
  • Diptera is commonly known as {'lang': 'pl', 'text': 'muchówki'}[20].
  • Diptera is commonly known as {'lang': 'pl', 'text': 'dwuskrzydłe'}[21].
  • Diptera is commonly known as {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'dvokrilci'}[22].
  • Diptera's studied by is recorded as dipterology[23].
  • Diptera's has part is recorded as insect wing[24].
  • Diptera's has part is recorded as halteres[25].
  • Diptera's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26].

Body

Classification

Diptera's scientific name is Diptera[8]. Diptera is classified at the rank of order[4]. Recorded parent taxon include Holometabola[6] and Antliophora[7]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'Vliegen en muggen'}[18], {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'tovinger'}[19], {'lang': 'pl', 'text': 'muchówki'}[20], {'lang': 'pl', 'text': 'dwuskrzydłe'}[21], and {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'dvokrilci'}[22].

Discovery and Description

insect wing is named after Diptera[5].

Identifiers

Recorded iNaturalist taxon ID include 47822[27] and 373080[28]. Diptera's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7147[29]. Diptera's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 421[30]. Diptera's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 811[31]. Diptera's ITIS TSN is recorded as 118831[32].

Why It Matters

Diptera ranks in the top 0.33% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (25,227 views/month, #645 of 195,241).[2] Diptera has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] Diptera is known by 89 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Progress, pitfalls and parallel universes: a history of insect phylogenetics. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [29] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [32] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [30] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [31] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre. Retrieved . artsdatabanken.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . encyklopedia.pwn.pl. encyklopedia.pwn.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . encyklopedia.pwn.pl. encyklopedia.pwn.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · Mapenite · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'am', 'an', 'ang', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'atj', 'ay', 'az', 'azb', 'ban', '
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 6205
    Sitelink count → 125
    National library of latvia id → 000124370
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1368]]: 000124370"
  2. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → flies
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: flies, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289925679|flies (#289925679)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0433572-dvoukridli
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0433572-dvoukridli, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  4. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Studied by → dipterology
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Temporal range start → Middle Triassic
    Instance of → —
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 9122, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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