Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A family of beetles typified by the genus Meloë, or merged in Cantharidæ. The larvæ are parasitic upon other insects, especially Hymenoptera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A natural family of insects comprising the blister beetles.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun blister beetles
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Examples
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Numerous insect groups (Orthoptera, Homoptera, Tenebrionidae, Meloidae, Curculionidae, and Scarabaeidae) are well adapted to the arid desert steppe.
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Blister-beetles (Meloidae) as first described by J.H. Fabre (1857), and later with more elaboration by H. Beaurégard (1890).
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When my turn came, he questioned me upon the hypermetamorphosis of the Meloidae [a beetle family including the oil beetle and the Spanish fly], my last essay in entomology.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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This is a Blister Beetle in the family Meloidae, but we have not had any luck identifying the species on BugGuide.
What's That Bug? 2009
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This trait is shared with many other Blister Beetles in the family Meloidae, including the notorious European Spanish Fly.
What's That Bug? 2009
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Orthoptera, Homoptera, Tenebrionidae, Meloidae, Curculionidae, Scarabaeidae) that are well adapted to the arid desert steppe are closely associated with plants such as Caragana spp. and Artemisia spp. that dominate the basin.
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And the other Meloidae -- Cantharides, Cerocomae, Mylabres (For these
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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