Definition of Family Cynipidae

1. Noun. A family of Hymenoptera.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Cynipidae

family Cryptobranchidae
family Cryptocercidae
family Cryptogrammataceae
family Ctenizidae
family Cuculidae
family Cucurbitaceae
family Culicidae
family Cunoniaceae
family Cupressaceae
family Curculionidae
family Cuterebridae
family Cyatheaceae
family Cycadaceae
family Cyclopteridae
family Cymatiidae
family Cynipidae (current term)
family Cynocephalidae
family Cynoglossidae
family Cyperaceae
family Cypraeidae
family Cyprinidae
family Cyprinodontidae
family Cyrilliaceae
family Dacninae
family Dacrymycetaceae
family Dactylopiidae
family Dactylopteridae
family Dactyloscopidae
family Danaidae
family Dasyatidae

Literary usage of Family Cynipidae

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

1. California Gall-making Cynipidae: With Descriptions of New Species by Mary Isabel McCracken, Dorothy Barnes Egbert (1922)
"... Family CYNIPIDAE Westwood Sub-Family ... Thompson The family Cynipidae as pointed out by Dalla Torre and ..."

2. The House Fly, Disease Carrier: An Account of Its Dangerous Activities and by Leland Ossian Howard (1911)
"In the gall-fly family, Cynipidae, most of the species of which produce galls upon living plants and very numerously upon the oak, there is one subfamily of ..."

3. Injurious and Useful Insects: An Introduction to the Study of Economic by Louis Compton Miall (1902)
"Parasitica family Cynipidae (gall-flies). Small, sometimes very small flies, which as larvae inhabit galls or dwell parasitically in the bodies of other ..."

4. Zoology of the Invertebrata: A Text-book for Students. by Arthur Everett Shipley (1893)
"Family CYNIPIDAE (Gall-flies).—Small Hymenoptera with a much-compressed abdomen, the first and second segments of which are large, the others very short. ..."

5. Galls and Insects Producing Them by Melville Thurston Cook (1904)
"The family Cynipidae shows by far the highest development of gall structures. 3. The morphological character of the gall depends upon the genus of the ..."

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