Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In entom.: The name given by Gravenhorst in 1802 to the rove-beetles (Staphylinidæ) and their allies, on account of the shortness of the wing-covers. They are now called
Brachelytra . - A group of dipterous insects named by Robineau-Desvoidy in 1830.
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Romalea microptera–eastern lubber grasshopper chewing on leaf of pond apple, Annona glabra, Loxahatchee, Florida.
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Romalea microptera–eastern lubber grasshopper chewing on leaf of pond apple, Annona glabra, Loxahatchee, Florida.
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_Scaphiodon capoëta_, and the _Anguilla microptera_. [
History of Phoenicia George Rawlinson 1857
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