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English
Etymology
From translingual Diptera + -ist.
Noun
dipterist (plural dipterists)
- An entomologist who specializes in the order Diptera (true flies).
- 1857, Henry Tibbats Stainton (editor), Review of Francis Walker, Insecta Britannica - Diptera, Volume 3, in The Entomologist's Annual, page 170,
- It must be very gratifying to Mr. Walker to hear the dictum of the great Dipterist of Posen, Professor Loew, that the arrangement “adopted by Mr. Walker is one of the best, or even the best, systematic arrangement of the Diptera that has yet been proposed."
2004, Howard Ensign Evans, The Man Who Loved Wasps: A Howard Ensign Evans Reader, page 88:This catalog is the work of a devoted band of dipterists in the Entomology Research Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, assisted by more than 40 collaborators, each of them a specialist on some particular group of flies.
2010, Alan Stubbs, “27: Flies, beetles and bees, wasps and ants (Diptera, Coleoptera and aculeate Hymenoptera)”, in Norman Maclean, editor, Silent Summer: The State of Wildlife in Britain and Ireland, page 496:The Dipterists Forum (flies) has over 300 members (also known for its journal Dipterists Digest), the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society over 400 members (its journal is BWARS News) and the beetle enthusiasts have The Coleopterist journal, with 400 subscribers.