Definition of Family Sphingidae

1. Noun. Hawkmoths.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Sphingidae

family Sirenidae
family Sisyridae
family Sittidae
family Solanaceae
family Soleidae
family Solenidae
family Soricidae
family Spalacidae
family Sparganiaceae
family Sparidae
family Sphaeriaceae
family Sphaerobolaceae
family Sphaerocarpaceae
family Sphecidae
family Spheniscidae
family Sphingidae (current term)
family Sphyraenidae
family Sphyrnidae
family Spirillaceae
family Spirochaetaceae
family Spirulidae
family Squalidae
family Squatinidae
family Squillidae
family Staphylaceae
family Staphylinidae
family Steatornithidae
family Stenopelmatidae
family Stercorariidae
family Sterculiaceae

Literary usage of Family Sphingidae

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

1. Report (1913)
"... AW Andrews on 1he beetles of the Charity Islands, WW Newcomb on a checklist of Michigan moths of the family Sphingidae, Bryant Walker on the molluscs of ..."

2. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia by American Entomological Society, Entomological Society of Philadelphia (1865)
"Latreille, in his " Considerations Ge'ne'rales," J when arranging his Family " Sphingidae," inaugurates it with ..."

3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1885)
"But, under this view, the family Sphingidae, as here considered, would remain only of Subfamily value, somewhat as intended by Dr. Harris, whose " tribes ..."

4. Monograph of the Bombycine Moths of North America: Including Their by Alpheus Spring Packard, Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1905)
"146), though Rothschild and Jordan state that it is atout 225 inni., equal to 8 inches. Revision of the Lepidopterous family Sphingidae, p. ..."

5. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1904)
"... in which the whole superfamily was first included, and we find the remarkable anomaly (Revision of the Sphingidae, pp. cxxxv,) of a family Sphingidae, ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Family Sphingidae on Dictionary.com!Search for Family Sphingidae on Thesaurus.com!Search for Family Sphingidae on Google!Search for Family Sphingidae on Wikipedia!

Search