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Definition of Family ichneumonidae

1. Noun. Ichneumon flies.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Ichneumonidae

Literary usage of Family ichneumonidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biological Control of Insects and Mites: An Introduction to Beneficial by Daniel L. Mahr, Nino M. Ridgway (1993)
"Aphid mummies in a colony usually indicate that many of the apparently healthy aphids are also parasitized. family ichneumonidae ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"... with a more or less distinct peduncle at one end, and agree well in general with many in the family Ichneumonidae, although those in the subfamily ..."

3. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1880)
"... three parasites which we shall mention belong to the family Ichneumonidae, or ichneumon flies, as they are commonly and familiarly called. ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... of the family Ichneumonidae, as wcl as from other insect-eating Arthropods. The term mimicry has also been applied to resemblances of ; different kind ..."

5. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1896)
"... that this new subfamily should hold in the family I would propose the following arrangement of the subfamilies and tribes : Family ICHNEUMONIDAE. ..."

6. Entomology for Beginners for the Use of Young Folks, Fruit-growers, Farmers by Alpheus Spring Packard (1888)
"family ichneumonidae.—In this great family the costal and subcostal veins are confluent, the costal cell therefore absent, while the The ..."

7. Labrador, the Country and the People by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1909)
"There are a large number of parasitic species belonging to the family Ichneumonidae. Packard collected about twenty-five species, only five of which have ..."

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