Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A group of coleopterous insects.
  • A division of hemipterous insects in which the tarsi are two-jointed, as in the Aphididæ and Psyllidæ or plant-lice.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural A division of Coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi.
  • noun plural A division of the Hemiptera, including the aphids.

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