Definition of Corixa

1. Noun. Type genus of the Corixidae: boat bugs.

Exact synonyms: Genus Corixa
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Corixidae, Family Corixidae
Member holonyms: Boat Bug, Water Boatman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Corixa

Coricidin
Corina
Corinna
Corinne
Corinth
Corinthia
Corinthiac
Corinthian
Corinthian order
Corinthian spirit
Corinthian spirits
Corinthians
Coriolanian
Coriolis effect
Coriolis force
Corixa
Corixidae
Cork
Corkonian
Corkonians
Cormac
Cormack
Cormag
Cormick
Cormo
Cormos
Corn Belt
Cornaceae
Corneille

Literary usage of Corixa

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

1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"They compose the genus • NOTONECTA, Lin. Which has been divided in the following manner: B corixa, Geoff.—Sigara, Fab. Where the scutellum is wanting(l); ..."

2. The Cell in Development and Inheritance by Edmund Beecher Wilson (1897)
"... ('86) and later writers, the egg always lies in the same position in the oviduct, its cephalic end being turned c Fig. 129. — Eggs of the insect corixa. ..."

3. Catalogue of the Hemiptera of American North of Mexico: Excepting the by Edward Payson Van Duzee (1917)
"18, 1901, corixa. Barber, Bui. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxiii, p. ... 581, 1857, corixa. Guerin, Rev. Zool. for 1857, p. 526, corixa. Localities: Texas, Calif. ..."

4. Half Hours with Insects by Alpheus Spring Packard (1877)
"So with the hinder edge of the pro- thorax, which rides over the membranous hind thorax, which it nearly conceals. When the corixa rises to the surface it ..."

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