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Definition of Genus Psithyrus
1. Noun. A large bee that resembles the bumblebee but lacks pollen-collecting apparatus and a worker caste.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Apidae, Family Apidae
Member holonyms: Cuckoo-bumblebee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Psithyrus
Literary usage of Genus Psithyrus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook to the City of Dublin and the Surrounding District by Grenville Arthur James Cole, R. Lloyd Praeger (1908)
"the genus Psithyrus are parasitic on the true Humble Bees (Bombus). ... The bees
of the parasitic genus Psithyrus are not numerous in local collections, ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"... but poor in the Southern one, and in both the Ethiopian and Australian regions
it is thought to be entirely wanting. The species of the genus Psithyrus ..."
3. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1899)
"... makers and the pollen-storers is the extent to which each are preyed upon by
the closely allied inquiline genus Psithyrus, and their relation to it. ..."
4. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1907)
"Genus PSITHYRUS Lepelletier. 1. Psithyrus variabilis (Cresson). Our commonest
Psithyrus. Lincoln, Ashland. Seward and West Point, May to October, ..."
5. The Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History by Edward Newman (1844)
"The males of the genus Psithyrus may be distinguished from those of Bombus by
the convex posterior tibiae thickly granulated and coated with hairs: in the ..."
6. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1884)
"... genus Psithyrus I have found four out of our five British species, but only
one or two of each, and all males. Prosopis dilatata, once looked upon as ..."
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