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phytophagic, a. Zool.|faɪtəʊˈfædʒɪk, fɪtəʊ-|
[f. as next + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to phytophagy; derived from or caused by phytophagy: said of variation of the colouring of insect larvæ attributed to the plants on which they feed.
1866Darwin Orig. Spec. ii. (ed. 4) 55 These cases he [B. D. Walsh] has fully described under the terms of Phytophagic varieties and Phytophagic species. 1885Poulton in Proc. Roy. Soc. XXXVIII. 313 Such effects are entirely inexplicable by the simple theory of phytophagic influence,..it would be wiser to abandon the term ‘phytophagic’, at any rate in the sense of producing these changes. The term still holds good for the broad fact that pigments derived from the food-plant play a most important part in larval coloration. 1887J. T. Gulick in Linn. Soc. Jrnl., Zool. (1890) XX. 226 The innumerable cases where phytophagic varieties..of insects exist. |