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Definition of Saturniids
1. saturniid [n] - See also: saturniid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saturniids
Literary usage of Saturniids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1899)
"Both the saturniids and ... Packard further draws attention to the fact that in
some of the saturniids the ..."
2. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"... aiding the pupa to work its way out from the cocoon, by a wriggling motion.
One of the ways .in which saturniids pierce Fig. 213. ..."
3. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt (1890)
"To those who are working at this superfamily, the publication is indispensable,
and the Catalogue of the saturniids of America and Europe, ..."
4. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1902)
"... saturniids the imagines of both sexes must have had large ... He concluded
from these observations that probably members of the saturniids existed with ..."
5. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1906)
"... hybrids among the saturniids, and it is to be noted that, although $ hybrids
among the saturniids have frequently fertilised 2 s of either parent form, ..."
6. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... on the feelers of female saturniids. EB Poulton has drawn attention to the
ancestral value of such characters. Habits and Life-Relations. ..."
7. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1903)
"... on a slightly-raised skin area, to the definite sharply outlined and more or
less raised wart, a condition such as obtains in saturniids or certain ..."
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