Definition of Genus Hippodamia

1. Noun. Genus of ladybugs.

Exact synonyms: Hippodamia
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Coccinellidae, Family Coccinellidae
Member holonyms: Hippodamia Convergens

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Hippodamia

genus Heuchera
genus Hevea
genus Hexagrammos
genus Hexalectris
genus Hexamita
genus Hexanchus
genus Hibbertia
genus Hibiscus
genus Hieracium
genus Himantoglossum
genus Himantopus
genus Hippeastrum
genus Hippobosca
genus Hippocampus
genus Hippocrepis
genus Hippodamia (current term)
genus Hippoglossoides
genus Hippoglossus
genus Hippopotamus
genus Hipposideros
genus Hippotragus
genus Hipsurus
genus Hirudo
genus Hirundo
genus Hoheria
genus Holarrhena
genus Holbrookia
genus Holcus
genus Holocentrus
genus Holothuria

Literary usage of Genus Hippodamia

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

1. Determinate Evolution in the Color-pattern of the Lady-beetles by Roswell Hill Johnson (1910)
"Genus HIPPODAMIA Mulsant. The species of Hippodamia fall into several distinct phylogenetic sections, as shown in fig. 7 and table 1. ..."

2. Insect Pests of Farm, Garden and Orchard by Ezra Dwight Sanderson (1921)
"Several other species, in the genus Hippodamia, are very useful, and among them the Convergent Ladybird (Hippodamia convergens) is one of the best known. ..."

3. Reports on Zoology for 1843, 1844 by Andreas Johann Wagner, Franz Hermann Troschel, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson, Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1847)
"... and characterizes it by the simple claws; he less correctly associates the other long forms with Coccinella ; the genus Hippodamia, Dej. ..."

4. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1904)
"... of specimens of the genus Hippodamia from the United States and had reached the conclusion that divisions based on maculatura alone were unreliable and ..."

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