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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within thesuperfamily Scarabaeoidea — thelamellicorn beetles .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany also has a very rich and varied scarab or dung beetle (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) fauna.
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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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Not all beetles will permit this of course, as many flightless species have their elytra fastened down, and some, such as many Scarabaeidae, flip their flying wings out pen-knife-like without noticeably raising the elytra.
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The grubs of the Chafers (Scarabaeidae) are also root-eaters, but they are less active in their habits than the wireworms, and the cuticle of their somewhat stout bodies is, for the most part, pale and flexible; only the head and legs are hard and horny.
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All three operate below ground, under the most unfavourable conditions; and all three have for their victim a larva of one of the Scarabaeidae, which, thanks to the exceptional arrangement of its nerve-centres, lends itself, alone of all larvae, to the Wasp's successful enterprises.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Environment, diet, industry and internal structure are all similar; and yet one of these three larvae, the Cetonia's, reveals a most singular dissimilarity from its fellow-trenchermen: alone among the Scarabaeidae and, more than that, alone in all the immense order of insects, it walks upon its back.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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In the same heap of mould is a swarming colony of Scarabaeidae in the form of larvae, nymphs and adult insects.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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If I could at least identify the Scarabaeidae whose larvae form the prey of the two Scoliae, the problem would be half solved.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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We know that, in the Scarabaeidae, both the larva and the perfect insect are endowed with a concentrated nervous system.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Buprestes of the Cerceres; and this is why it has fallen to their lot to share among them the larvae of the Scarabaeidae.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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