单词 | lerp manna |
释义 | > as lemmaslerp manna A sweet secretion, or the scales formed from it, produced by larvæ of jumping plant-lice of the family Psyllidæ on the leaves of eucalypts and other plants. More fully lerp manna. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Psyllidae > secretion produced by larvae manna1808 lerp1848 1848 W. Westgarth Austral. Felix vi. 73 The natives of the Wimmera prepare a luscious drink from the laap. 1878 R. B. Smyth Aborigines Victoria I. 211 Lerp. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 493/2 The Lerp manna of Australia is of animal origin. 1907 W. W. Froggatt Insects of Austral. (Commonwealth Sci. & Industr. Res. Organization, Austral.) 363 Their popular name of ‘Lerp Insects’ [comes] from the habit of the larvae of many species of forming ‘lerp scales’, shell-like protective coverings formed from exudations from the insects. 1945 K. C. McKeown Insects of Austral. (Commonwealth Sci. & Industr. Res. Organization, Austral.) 104 The Psyllidae, or Lerp-insects, form an important group in Australia. 1945 K. C. McKeown Insects of Austral. (Commonwealth Sci. & Industr. Res. Organization, Austral.) 106 In its immature stages the insect lives as a squat little larva or nymph beneath the lerp-scale. 1962 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 87 283 The encyrtid parasites described in this paper form one of the lesser groups of parasites of lerp-forming psyllids on eucalypts. 1965 Austral. Encycl. V. 290/2 Lerp-insects, a large and common group of jumping plant-lice..which suggest miniature cicadas... Some of them give themselves, through sugary exudations, protective and often picturesque coverings known as lerp scales. 1965 Austral. Encycl. IV. 479/2 The lerp scales secreted by the larvae are often of beautiful design and characteristic of the species. 1970 T. E. Woodward et al. in Insects of Austral. (Commonwealth Sci. & Industr. Res. Organization, Austral.) xxvi. 418/2 Lerp formation has probably evolved because of the need to protect the nymphs from desiccation. 1970 T. E. Woodward et al. in Insects of Austral. (Commonwealth Sci. & Industr. Res. Organization, Austral.) xxvi. 419/1 Most species of Glycaspis and Lasiopsylla are lerp-builders, but some form large bubble-shaped galls with an orifice at the base plugged with the same waxy or sugary material as is used by other species to build lerps. < as lemmas |
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