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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within theorder Coleoptera — thelonghorn beetles .
Etymologies
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In about two months I obtained no less than 700 species of beetles, a large proportion of which were quite new, and among them were 130 distinct kinds of the elegant Longicorns (Cerambycidae), so much esteemed by collectors.
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Some of the known fresh wood insects are:/pidae, Cerambycidae, and Siricidae.
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Larvae of the two-lined chestnut borer, _Agrilus bilineatus_, were most abundant, but larvae of species of the families Scolytidae and Cerambycidae were also present in large numbers.
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Longhorn Beetles (Cerambycidae) burrowing in the wood of trees or felled trunks; here the legs are reduced to small vestiges.
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Of beetles we have undoubted Curculionidae from the Lias and Trias; Chrysomelidae in the same deposits; Cerambycidae in the
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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This beautiful beetle is not a Stag Beetle, but rather a Longhorned Borer Beetle or Longicorn in the family Cerambycidae.
What's That Bug? 2009
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Your beetle is an Ivory Marked Beetle, Eburia quadrigeminata, one of the Long Horned Borer Beetles in the family Cerambycidae.
What's That Bug? 2009
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a large proportion of which were quite new, and among them were 130 distinct kinds of the elegant Longicorns (Cerambycidae), so much esteemed by collectors.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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