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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of hymenopterous insects, of the family Tenthredinidæ, founded by Klug in 1881, having short wings with 2 marginal and 3 submarginal cells, filiform 9-jointed antennæ, transverse head, prominent eyes, and a long abdomen, cylindrical in the male, and broad and carinate in the female.

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