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chalcid, a. and n. Ent.|ˈkælsɪd|
[f. mod.L. Chalcididæ: see chalcididan.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the superfamily Chalcidoidea of the order Hymenoptera.
B. n. A member of this superfamily. So chalˈcidian a.2, ˈchalcidid a. and n.
1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 49 Parasitic hymenoptera of the chalcidian group. 1891Proc. U.S. Nat. Museum XIV. 570, I know no case in which a chalcidid is a parasite of a proctotrypid. Ibid. 571 Chalcidid parasites of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera are very rare. 1893Ormerod Injur. Insects 16th Rep. 66 The little Chalcids were a species of Entedon. Ibid., We should get no good by endeavouring to rear these Chalcid flies. 1895Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. 545 In the cells of the same bee Newport discovered another curious parasitic Chalcid, Anthophorabia retusa. 1957E. B. Ford Butterflies (ed. 3) vi. 111 Chalcids are stouter insects than are Ichneumons. 1959J. Clegg Freshwater Life (ed. 2) 227 Two genera of Chalcid Wasps are also aquatic. |