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Definition of Family Chrysomelidae
1. Noun. Leaf beetles.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Coleoptera, Order Coleoptera
Member holonyms: Chrysomelid, Leaf Beetle, Genus Leptinotarsa, Leptinotarsa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Chrysomelidae
Literary usage of Family Chrysomelidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"We begin with those that are least aquatic in habit. Two small groups of leaf
beetles of the great family Chrysomelidae feed upon water plants; ..."
2. Injurious and Useful Insects: An Introduction to the Study of Economic by Louis Compton Miall (1902)
"family Chrysomelidae (leaf-beetles). Antennae often long. Elytra usually polished.
Less elongate and smaller, as a rule, than Cerambycidae. ..."
3. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"family Chrysomelidae (Leaf beetles).—This is the largest family of beetles but
its members are small, not often being over half an inch long. ..."
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