单词 | sitaris |
释义 | Sitarisn. Entomology. A genus of blister beetles (family Meloidae) which are kleptoparasites of bees of the genus Anthophora. Also: a beetle of this genus; spec. Sitaris muralis, which is native to western Europe and has a black body with yellow-orange patches on the front of the elytra.Valid publication of the genus name: P. A. Latreille Buffon's Hist. Nat.: Crustacés et Insectes (1802) III.187. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Heteromera > family Meloidae > genus Sitaris Sitaris1826 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 726 (caption) Subulate elytra. Sitaris. 1866 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 4) xiv. 530 The first larval form of a certain beetle, the Sitaris,..is a minute active insect. 1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 337 The female Sitaris..lays her eggs in a mass glued together. 1938 A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 4) 521 The life-history of Meloë has been partially followed by Newport..and is apparently very similar to that of Sitaris. 1972 L. E. Chadwick tr. W. Linsenmaier Insects of World 159/2 The first-stage larvae of Sitaris crawl into the nest entrances of terrestrial bees in the springtime. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1826 |
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