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Definition of Family Cynipidae
1. Noun. A family of Hymenoptera.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Hymenoptera, Order Hymenoptera
Member holonyms: Cynipid Gall Wasp, Cynipid Wasp, Gall Wasp, Gallfly, Cynips, Genus Cynips, Amphibolips, Genus Amphibolips, Andricus, Genus Andricus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Cynipidae
Literary usage of Family Cynipidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. California Gall-making Cynipidae: With Descriptions of New Species by Mary Isabel McCracken, Dorothy Barnes Egbert (1922)
"... Family CYNIPIDAE Westwood Sub-Family ... Thompson The family Cynipidae as
pointed out by Dalla Torre and ..."
2. The House Fly, Disease Carrier: An Account of Its Dangerous Activities and by Leland Ossian Howard (1911)
"In the gall-fly family, Cynipidae, most of the species of which produce galls
upon living plants and very numerously upon the oak, there is one subfamily of ..."
3. Injurious and Useful Insects: An Introduction to the Study of Economic by Louis Compton Miall (1902)
"Parasitica family Cynipidae (gall-flies). Small, sometimes very small flies,
which as larvae inhabit galls or dwell parasitically in the bodies of other ..."
4. Zoology of the Invertebrata: A Text-book for Students. by Arthur Everett Shipley (1893)
"Family CYNIPIDAE (Gall-flies).—Small Hymenoptera with a much-compressed abdomen,
the first and second segments of which are large, the others very short. ..."
5. Galls and Insects Producing Them by Melville Thurston Cook (1904)
"The family Cynipidae shows by far the highest development of gall structures. 3.
The morphological character of the gall depends upon the genus of the ..."
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