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Definition of Family Sphingidae
1. Noun. Hawkmoths.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Lepidoptera, Order Lepidoptera
Member holonyms: Hawk Moth, Hawkmoth, Hummingbird Moth, Sphingid, Sphinx Moth, Genus Manduca, Manduca, Acherontia, Genus Acherontia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Sphingidae
Literary usage of Family Sphingidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report (1913)
"... AW Andrews on 1he beetles of the Charity Islands, WW Newcomb on a checklist
of Michigan moths of the family Sphingidae, Bryant Walker on the molluscs of ..."
2. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia by American Entomological Society, Entomological Society of Philadelphia (1865)
"Latreille, in his " Considerations Ge'ne'rales," J when arranging his Family "
Sphingidae," inaugurates it with ..."
3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1885)
"But, under this view, the family Sphingidae, as here considered, would remain
only of Subfamily value, somewhat as intended by Dr. Harris, whose " tribes ..."
4. Monograph of the Bombycine Moths of North America: Including Their by Alpheus Spring Packard, Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1905)
"146), though Rothschild and Jordan state that it is atout 225 inni., equal to 8
inches. Revision of the Lepidopterous family Sphingidae, p. ..."
5. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1904)
"... in which the whole superfamily was first included, and we find the remarkable
anomaly (Revision of the Sphingidae, pp. cxxxv,) of a family Sphingidae, ..."
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