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passalid, a. (n.) Ent.|ˈpæsəlɪd|
[f. mod.L. family name Passalidæ, f. the generic name Passalus (J. C. Fabricius Entomologia Systematica (1792) I. ii. 240), f. Gr. πάσσαλος peg, in allusion to the shape of the insect: see -id3.]
Belonging to the family Passalidæ, which includes black or dark brown beetles with slightly flattened bodies, found in decaying wood in warm forest regions. Also as n., a beetle belonging to this family.
1904G. J. Arrow in Trans. Entomol. Soc. London 748 The Passalid beetle stridulates by the opposition of certain stout spines upon the wings to other spines..upon the antepenultimate dorsal segment. 1916Records Indian Museum XII. 138 Madame Merian's larva can no longer be regarded as a Passalid. 1927Chambers's Jrnl. 20 Aug. 601/1 The whole Passalid family lives in rotten tree-stumps. 1959E. F. Linssen Beetles Brit. Isles I. 44 The Passalid beetles are so interesting and of such exceeding importance to the comparative study of the social behaviour of insects that the reader may wish to know more about them. 1972L. E. Chadwick tr. Linsenmaier's Insects of World 155/2 Famous for their family life are the passalid beetles. |