Definition of Family Capsidae

1. Noun. Leaf bugs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Capsidae

family Calostomataceae
family Calycanthaceae
family Camelidae
family Campanulaceae
family Cancridae
family Canellaceae
family Canidae
family Cannabidaceae
family Cannaceae
family Capitonidae
family Capparidaceae
family Caprifoliaceae
family Caprimulgidae
family Caproidae
family Capromyidae
family Capsidae (current term)
family Carabidae
family Carangidae
family Carapidae
family Carcharhinidae
family Carchariidae
family Cardiidae
family Cariamidae
family Caricaceae
family Carpinaceae
family Caryocaraceae
family Caryophyllaceae
family Castoridae
family Casuaridae
family Casuarinaceae

Literary usage of Family Capsidae

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

1. Entomology for Beginners for the Use of Young Folks, Fruit-growers, Farmers by Alpheus Spring Packard (1888)
"family Capsidae.—Body oval; antennae threadlike, long, and 4-jointed; the end of the thick part of the ..."

2. Zoology of the Invertebrata: A Text-book for Students. by Arthur Everett Shipley (1893)
"Family CAPSIDAE.—A veiy numerous family, whose members are active both in running and flying. They are mostly of a medium size, oval in outline, and convex. ..."

3. A Naturalist on Lake Victoria: With an Account of Sleeping Sickness and the by Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter (1920)
"... was a small bug of the family Capsidae,1 which proved to be not only an undescribed species, but sufficiently distinct to be placed in a new genus. ..."

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