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Definition of Chalcid
1. Noun. Any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects.
Generic synonyms: Hymenopter, Hymenopteran, Hymenopteron, Hymenopterous Insect
Group relationships: Chalcidae, Chalcididae, Family Chalcidae, Family Chalcididae
Specialized synonyms: Chalcis Fly
Definition of Chalcid
1. Noun. Any of many small wasps, of the superfamily ''Chalcidoidea'', having parasitic larvae ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chalcid
1. a tiny fly [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chalcid
Literary usage of Chalcid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biological Control of Insects and Mites: An Introduction to Beneficial by Daniel L. Mahr, Nino M. Ridgway (1993)
"SUPERFAMILY chalcidOIDEA chalcid wasps This group comprises about a dozen families of
... The families of chalcid wasps vary considerably in appearance. ..."
2. Transactions of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society by Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society (1906)
"If the larval host feed enclosed on plant-tissue, the chalcid parasite may feed
... There are a few cases known where the parasitic chalcid larva feeds ..."
3. Farm Friends and Farm Foes: A Text-book of Agricultural Science by Clarence Moores Weed (1910)
"Shortly afterward the chalcid Fly lays its egg within the egg of the Plusia Moth.
The chalcid egg remains within the Plusia egg, so that the latter hatches ..."
4. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1908)
"юр This /Seed chalcid does an Immense amount of damage to the seed, and a damage
that is ... Clover Seed chalcid. funebris: adult, female. funebris: eggs. ..."
5. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1887)
"On two new chalcid-flies from Florida, parasitic upon the ... a tropical genus
of chalcid-flies in Florida, Ent, Am. i, 95 (1885). ..."
6. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1909)
"At present there have issued three species of internal chalcid parasites; ...
Two species, 4 shipments, of chalcid parasites on the half-grown black scale ..."
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