Definition of Family sialidae

1. Noun. An arthropod family including: alderflies.

Exact synonyms: Sialidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Megaloptera, Suborder Megaloptera
Member holonyms: Genus Sialis, Sialis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Sialidae

family Sclerotiniaceae
family Scolopacidae
family Scolytidae
family Scomberesocidae
family Scombresocidae
family Scombridae
family Scorpaenidae
family Scrophulariaceae
family Scutigeridae
family Scyliorhinidae
family Secotiaceae
family Selaginellaceae
family Sepiidae
family Septobasidiaceae
family Serranidae
family Sialidae
family Sillaginidae
family Siluridae
family Simaroubaceae
family Simuliidae
family Sirenidae
family Sisyridae
family Sittidae
family Solanaceae
family Soleidae
family Solenidae
family Soricidae
family Spalacidae
family Sparganiaceae
family Sparidae

Literary usage of Family sialidae

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

1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"Table of Families Hind wings with an anal space 1 Hind wings with no anal space 2 1—Prothorax quadrangular when seen from above family sialidae Prothorax ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... of the family Sialidae. related to the ant-lions, with long filamentous antennae and four large wings, of which the anterior pair is rather longer than ..."

3. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"In the family Sialidae belongs the largest member of the order (Fig. 217) found in the United States. This is commonly called the Corydalis or Hellgrammite ..."

4. Dry Fly Entomology: A Brief Description of Leading Types of Natural Insects by Frederic Michael Halford (1897)
"... rI ^HE family Sialidae comprises in our islands •*- only one genus—Sialis, and of this genus two species, viz., S. lutaria and S. fuliginosa. ..."

5. The Yucca Moth and Yucca Pollination by Charles Valentine Riley (1892)
"... species of the family Sialidae, as Sialis infumata. This general resemblance is due to certain characteristics which are quite abnormal in Lepidoptera, ..."

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