Definition of Family Tetranychidae

1. Noun. Plant-feeding mites.

Exact synonyms: Tetranychidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Acarina, Order Acarina
Member holonyms: Spider Mite, Tetranychid, Genus Panonychus, Panonychus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Tetranychidae

family Tapiridae
family Tarsiidae
family Taxaceae
family Tecophilaeacea
family Teiidae
family Tenebrionidae
family Tenrecidae
family Tenthredinidae
family Terebellidae
family Teredinidae
family Termitidae
family Testudinidae
family Tethyidae
family Tetragoniaceae
family Tetranychidae (current term)
family Tetraodontidae
family Tetraonidae
family Tettigoniidae
family Theaceae
family Thelephoraceae
family Thelypteridaceae
family Theophrastaceae
family Theraphosidae
family Theridiidae
family Thiobacteriaceae
family Thraupidae
family Threskiornithidae
family Thripidae
family Thymelaeaceae

Literary usage of Family Tetranychidae

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

1. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"Family. Tetranychidae (Spinning Mites). These have tracheae and eyes; the palpi are composed of four segments, of which the last but one has a powerful claw ..."

2. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1904)
"... as well as from all others of the family Tetranychidae in having the last joint of the palpi attached to the tip of the preceding joint. ..."

3. Sanitary Entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"These two species belong to the family Tetranychidae. The disease known as "GONONE" in Celebes and New Guinea is caused by the ..."

4. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1921)
"Ewing, HE—New nearctic spider mites of the family Tetranychidae. 50, lix, 659-66. NEUROPTERA. Dietz, HF—Notes on the termites of Indiana. 56, 1920, 87-96. ..."

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