Definition of Nepidae

1. Noun. Water scorpions.

Exact synonyms: Family Nepidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Heteroptera, Suborder Heteroptera
Member holonyms: Water Scorpion, Genus Nepa, Nepa, Genus Ranatra, Ranatra

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nepidae

Nephelium lappaceum
Nephelium litchi
Nephelium longana
Nephelium mutabile
Nephilim
Nephite
Nephrolepis
Nephrolepis exaltata
Nephrolepis exaltata bostoniensis
Nephrolepis pectinata
Nephrops
Nephrops norvegicus
Nephropsidae
Nephthys
Nephthytis afzelii
Nepidae (current term)
Neptune
Neptune's girdle
Neptunian
Neptunians
Neptunism
Neptunist
Neptunists
Nera
Nerdic
Nereid
Neretva
Nereus
Nergal
Neri's sign

Literary usage of Nepidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"This division includes the majority of the families of Heteroptera—viz. the whole of the terrestrial families except Saldidae, and it also includes Nepidae, ..."

2. An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects: Founded on the by John Obadiah Westwood (1840)
"... Notonecta and its allies being admirably formed for swimming, whilst the Nepidae are very slow in their movements in the water, their legs scarcely ..."

3. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1898)
"Waterbugs are by no means of a solitary disposition (except perhaps the Nepidae), but usually occur together in some numbers,—several species of Corixa ..."

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