gall gnat

English Thesaurus

1. fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects,
definition	:	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 (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	hessian fly, mayetiola destructor,
definition	:	small fly whose larvae damage wheat and other grains (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	cecidomyidae, family cecidomyidae,
definition	:	gall midges (noun.animal)