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Definition of Family Dytiscidae
1. Noun. Water beetles.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Coleoptera, Order Coleoptera
Member holonyms: Water Beetle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Dytiscidae
Literary usage of Family Dytiscidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"family Dytiscidae (Carnivorous diving-beetles).—Members of this family are present
in almost every quiet stream and pond. They are oval,,rather flat beetles ..."
2. Injurious and Useful Insects: An Introduction to the Study of Economic by Louis Compton Miall (1902)
"The tarsi are always five-jointed, and the jaws are adapted to piercing. Some of
them eject an acrid liquid when handled. family Dytiscidae (diving-beetles) ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"488 OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DIVING BEETLES JAMES G. NEEDHAM AND
HELEN V. WILLIAMSON OUR predacious diving beetles of the family Dytiscidae ..."
4. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"... not thus divided Family DYTISCIDAE . . 52 52 (61) Scutellum invisible 53
53 (54) Third and fourth segments of the fore and middle tarsi not greatly ..."
5. Zoology of the Invertebrata: A Text-book for Students. by Arthur Everett Shipley (1893)
"Family DYTISCIDAE.—Water-beetles, sometimes known as " water-tigers." Some are
large oval beetles, others are quite minute ..."
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