ithomiidn.adj.
/ɪˈθəʊmɪɪd/ A. n.
A tropical Central or South American butterfly belonging to the family Ithomiidæ, or this group treated as the subfamily Ithomiinæ of the family Nymphalidæ.
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1899 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. vi. 346 The Ithomiides are peculiar to tropical America.
1972 F. M. Brown & B. Heineman Jamaica & its Butterflies 97 The number of ithomiids found in Central America is limited.
B. adj.
Of or relating to an insect of this kind.
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1972 F. M. Brown & B. Heineman Jamaica & its Butterflies 99 Greta is among the most advanced in structure of all ithomiid genera.
Derivatives
ithomiine n. and adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Nymphalidae > subfamily Ithomiinae > member of
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1912 G. B. Longstaff Butterfly-hunting vi. 312 The hour was earlier and the Ithomiines were not so closely packed.
1930 Proc. Entomol. Soc. London 5 91 An Ithomiine butterfly and its Heliconine mimic taken flying together in NW. Peru.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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