Definition of Family Phalangiidae

1. Noun. A family of Phalangida.

Exact synonyms: Phalangiidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Opiliones, Order Opiliones, Order Phalangida, Phalangida
Member holonyms: Genus Phalangium, Phalangium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Phalangiidae

family Peneidae
family Pennatulidae
family Peramelidae
family Percidae
family Percophidae
family Peridiniidae
family Peripatidae
family Peripatopsidae
family Peronosporaceae
family Pertusariaceae
family Petromyzontidae
family Pezizaceae
family Phaethontidae
family Phalacrocoracidae
family Phalangeridae
family Phalangiidae (current term)
family Phalaropidae
family Phallaceae
family Phasianidae
family Phasmatidae
family Phasmidae
family Phillidae
family Phocidae
family Phoenicopteridae
family Phoeniculidae
family Pholadidae
family Pholidae
family Pholididae
family Phthiriidae
family Phyllidae

Literary usage of Family Phalangiidae

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

1. Psyche by Cambridge Entomological Club (1893)
"... to the longer period of growth and feeding at the south, but the discussion of variations is not the purpose of the present paper. Family PHALANGIIDAE. ..."

2. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"The term " daddy-long-legs " in this country is applied exclusively to the so-called harvest spiders of the family Phalangiidae. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... belonging to the family Phalangiidae, do not hibernate in temperate and more northern latitudes in Europe and America, but perish in the autumn, ..."

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