lantern fly

lantern fly

n. Any of various chiefly tropical hemipteran insects of the family Fulgoridae that have an enlarged, elongated head, once thought to be luminescent.

lantern fly

n (Animals) any of various tropical insects of the homopterous family Fulgoridae, many species of which have a snoutlike process formerly thought to emit light

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lantern fly - large brightly marked tropical insect with a process like a snout that was formerly thought to emit lightlantern-flyplant hopper, planthopper - related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plantsfamily Fulgoridae, Fulgoridae - plant hoppers: lantern flies