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Coleoptera  n. pl.  (Zool.) An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillae) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils.






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"Coleoptera" Quotes from Famous Books



... a very inattentive husband," he said. "You must forgive me, my dear. And this sprained ankle keeping me in makes me cross, too. And I had so reckoned on these days at home to finish my list of Coleoptera, and get some dissecting and mounting done. But to-day, Mrs. Minchin brought her work directly after breakfast, and that empty-headed fellow Elliott dropped in for lunch, and we had callers all the afternoon, and a coterie for ...
— Six to Sixteen - A Story for Girls • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... Travels, 6 vols., 1869-1875; E. Whymper, Travels among the Great Andes of the Equator (Introduction to Appendix volume), 1892, etc.; Central America, the West Indies and South America; Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel, 2nd revised Ed., 1882; he also added a list of Coleoptera collected by J. S. Jameson on the Aruwini to the latter's Story of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, etc., 1890; and an appendix to a catalogue of Phytophaga by H. Clark, 1866, etc.; and contributed a biographical ...
— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates

... itself on the gilt pillar of a dinner lamp was scarcely to be distinguished from the or-molu to which it clung. They are enabled to ascend glass by means of the suckers at the extremity of their toes. Their food consists of flies and minute coleoptera. ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent



Words linked to "Coleoptera" :   animal order, Carabidae, Curculionidae, Elateridae, Dermestidae, family Gyrinidae, family Staphylinidae, Staphylinidae, family Lampyridae, family Meloidae, family Dytiscidae, family Dermestidae, order Coleoptera, Meloidae, Hexapoda, family Chrysomelidae, Bruchidae, Cerambycidae, family Anobiidae, Cicindelidae, Scolytidae, family Carabidae, Lampyridae, Lamellicornia, family Cerambycidae, class Insecta, family Curculionidae



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