robber fly vs dipteran

dipteran vs robber fly

robber fly and dipteran both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
robber fly	Yes	No	No	No
dipteran	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dipteran is a hypernym of robber fly; that is, dipteran is a word with a broader meaning than robber fly:

robber fly: swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing
dipteran: 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

Other hypernyms of robber fly include dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects.

robber fly (noun)	dipteran (noun)
swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing	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

Difference between robber fly and dipteran

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