| 单词 | darkling beetle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdarkling beetle darkling beetle n. any beetle of the large family Tenebrionidae, the members of which are mainly scavengers of plant material, and include cellar and flour beetles (cf. tenebrionid n.).Originally spec. denoting the cellar beetle Blaps mortisaga, which is black in colour and often found in dark places. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Heteromera > family Tenebrionidae > blaps mortisaga (darkling-beetle) darkling beetle1817 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Heteromera > family Tenebrionidae > member of tenebrio1753 darkling beetle1841 tenebrionid1921 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxi. 242 Pliny tells us of a Blatta,—which, from his description, is evidently the darkling-beetle (Blaps mortisaga, F.). 1841 T. W. Harris Rep. Insects Massachusetts 11 There are others [sc. fungus-eaters], such as the stag-beetles (Lucanidæ), some spring-beetles (Elateridæ), darkling beetles (Tenebrionidæ) and many bark-beetles. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xv. 349 The darkling beetles are nearly all of a uniform black color, but they vary greatly in size. 2015 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 8 Sept. b7/1 Mealworms and superworms aren't actually worms at all—they're the larval forms of two species of darkling beetles. < as lemmas |
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