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"Coleoptera" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... coast, in the vicinity of Rio Janeiro. Few of them crawl on the ground; the greater part of them live on the leaves and fruits, or under the bark of trees, in flowers, and in the spongy excrescences of the trees. Among the coleoptera, the Stachylinus is a rarity: the white-winged Cicindela nivea of Kirby is to be found in great abundance on the sand of the beach, which is of the same colour as itself; the Cic. nodicornis and angusticollis Dej. on the other hand, frequent ...
— A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 • Otto von Kotzebue
... made a laughable error in his description. Like all of the coleoptera, the Mercurians were hexapoda (six legged). What Mr. Bond continually refers to in his narrative as "upper arms" were really the antenna of the insects which split at the end into four flexible appendages resembling fingers. His mistake is a natural one, for the Mercurians used their antenna ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various |
Words linked to "Coleoptera" : beetle, family Cleridae, Cicindelidae, family Cerambycidae, family Chrysomelidae, class Insecta, family Staphylinidae, Bruchidae, Lampyridae, family Ipidae, Hexapoda, order Coleoptera, Lamellicornia, family Gyrinidae, family Scolytidae, class Hexapoda, Dytiscidae, animal order, Meloidae, Anobiidae, family Anobiidae, Cleridae, Ipidae, superfamily Lamellicornia, Elateridae, Dermestidae, family Lampyridae, family Tenebrionidae, Coccinellidae, Curculionidae, family Bruchidae, Insecta, family Carabidae |
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