Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A beetle of the genus Clytus, as the British C. arietis, or of a related longicorn genus, as the American Cyllene pictus: so called from their wasp-like maculation.
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Examples
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Usually to be discovered among the throng are the velvety black _Lytta_ or _Cantharis_, that impostor wasp-beetle, the black and yellow wavy-banded, red-legged locust-tree borer, and the painted _Clytus_, banded with yellow and sable, squeaking contentedly as he gnaws the florets that feed him.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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This insect has been declared to be, by Mr. John Keast Lord, "a beetle of the second family of the Coleoptera Cerambycidæ, and to be closely allied to a somewhat common species known as the wasp-beetle (_Clytus avietis_), which usually undergoes its changes in old dry palings."
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