| 单词 | sexton beetle |
| 释义 | > as lemmassexton beetle sexton beetle n. a beetle of the genus Nicrophorus or subfamily Nicrophorinae (family Silphidae) of typically large, somewhat flattened beetles, often black with orange bands, which bury the carcasses of small mammals and birds to provide food for their larvae; a burying beetle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Staphylinoidea > family Silphidae > member of genus Necrophorus sexton beetle1840 sexton1846 gravedigger1847 necrophore1890 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 516 Necrophorus Fabr... The instinctive habits which these insects possess of burying small quadrupeds, has caused them to be named Sexton, or Burying Beetles. 1871 Times 19 Dec. 4/4 We light upon an admirable account of the Sexton Beetle taken from Mr. E. Newman's Letters of Rusticus. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 866 Fifty of these sexton-beetles, some in funereal black and other species are more cheerfully attired, have been found working underneath a dead crow; and unless they are numerous they do not succeed with a largish animal. 1995 M. R. Berenbaum Bugs in Syst. iv. 61 Immature sexton beetles feed on the decaying flesh of dead birds and mammals, which is provided for them by their parents. 1996 A. Theroux Secondary Colors 73 The black, or sexton, beetle Nicrophorus has bright orange ‘hands’ emblazoned on its wing cover. < as lemmas |
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