gnat

Japanese: gnat
gnat

…To put it simply, Dipterans are the mosquitoes, horseflies, and flies that are closely related to our lives. In Japanese, they are distinguished as mosquitoes, horseflies, and flies, but in English, the small midges and biting midges are called gnats, but generally, they are all called flies. There are over 50 families and over 100,000 species in the world, and about 30 families and several thousand species in Japan, but most of them have not yet been studied. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "gnat" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…双翅類をわかりやすくいうと,われわれの生活と密接な関係のあるカ,アブ,ハエの類のことである。日本語では,蚊,虻,蠅と区別しているが,英名では例外的に小型のユスリカやヌカカをgnatというが,一般にはすべてをまとめてflyという。世界で五十数科,10万種以上,日本でも約30科,数千種の記録があるが,まだそのほとんどが研究されていないのが現状である。…

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