Phytophaga

Physopoda: bladder-footed: = Thysanoptera; q.v. Phytophaga: plant-eaters: beetles in which the 4th and 5th tarsal joints are anchylosed and the 3d is lobed.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

Weevils -- _Bruchus pisi_ and _Bruchus lenti_ -- are classed as Bruchidæ, in the series of Phytophaga.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

This nimble minute beetle (Fig. 13) belongs to the flea-beetles, (_Haltica_ family,) the same sub-group of the leaf-beetles (_Phytophaga_) to which also appertains the notorious steel-blue flea-beetle (_Haltica chalybea_,

The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. D. A. Compton 1846