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Definition of Family Tineidae
1. Noun. Clothes moths.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Superfamily Tineoidea, Tineoidea
Member holonyms: Tineid, Tineid Moth, Genus Tinea, Tinea, Genus Tineola, Tineola, Genus Trichophaga, Trichophaga
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Tineidae
Literary usage of Family Tineidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1880)
"... family TINEIDAE. At Manatee, Fla., in the latter part of April, I found upon
the trunk of an orange tree the ... Order LEPIDOPTERA ; family TINEIDAE. ..."
2. Papilio by New York Entomological Club (1881)
"... and should indicate a division inferior rather than superior to the family
Tineidae. Mr. Chambers, however, rests his claim to the use of the term ..."
3. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1893)
"The investigations which I macie for the purpose of this paper have led me to
extend the limits of the family Tineidae beyond those which I originally ..."
4. Insects Injurious to the Household and Annoying to Man by Glenn Washington Herrick (1914)
"The moths belonging to the family Tineidae are all very small and have narrow
wings fringed with very long, slender scales. Although small, some of them are ..."
5. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1905)
"... Clemens, family Tineidae. He also showed apple leaves mined by the larvae.
The leaves bore mines of four generations of larvae, there being from 23 to ..."
6. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"... trees should be cut and burned during the cold months, to destroy the caterpillars
in them, as such trees are doomed in any case. family Tineidae ..."
7. The Natural History Review: A Quarterly Journal of Biological Science by Armagh Natural History and Philosophical Society, Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, Cork Scientific and Literary Society, Cuvierian Society of Cork, Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association, Literary and Scientific Instit (1854)
"The family Tineidae, to which the clothes-moths belong, contains fourteen genera—the
first two of which have apterous females. ..."
8. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1907)
"Super-family, Tineidae. Leaf miners and clothes moths. This family is very large
and the larvae are mostly plant feeders. ..."
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