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Meloidae   Listen
proper noun
Meloidae  n.  A natural family of insects comprising the blister beetles.
Synonyms: family Meloidae.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Meloidae" Quotes from Famous Books



... said. "That was a blister beetle; smash it on your arm and you'll grow a nice welt. A member of the Meloidae family." ...
— Master of None • Lloyd Neil Goble

... out by Brauer (1869) is that in a few families, the first larval instar is campodeiform, while the subsequent instars are eruciform. We may take as an example of such 'hypermetamorphosis' the life-story of the Oil or Blister-beetles (Meloidae) as first described by J.H. Fabre (1857), and later with more elaboration by H. Beauregard (1890). From the egg of one of these beetles is hatched a minute armoured larva, with long feelers, legs, and cerci, whose task is, for example, to seize hold of a bee in order that the latter ...
— The Life-Story of Insects • Geo. H. Carpenter



Words linked to "Meloidae" :   arthropod family, blister beetle, order Coleoptera



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