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Definition of Order corrodentia
1. Noun. An order of insects: includes booklice and bark-lice.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Psocopterous Insect, Family Psocidae, Psocidae, Atropidae, Family Atropidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Corrodentia
Literary usage of Order corrodentia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1887)
"... type of a distinct order (Plecoptera), while his order Corrodentia embraces the
... As will be remembered, Burmeister'g order Corrodentia included the ..."
2. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"... that they have been brought together in the order Corrodentia. Those which
are winged have four wings with prominent veins but very few cross veins. ..."
3. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"The order Corrodentia, or book-lice and bark-lice, is composed of very small
insects most of which, composing the family ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"order corrodentia. The insects included in this order differ from those of the
two preceding orders in their more condensed abdomens which bear no cerci, ..."
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