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Definition of Satyrids
1. satyrid [n] - See also: satyrid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Satyrids
Literary usage of Satyrids
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 (1908)
"... retain as good a hold upon the fauna as those species which do not pass what
would seem to be so perilous a winter ; on the contrary, our satyrids and ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1899)
"The forked anal vein (viii) of primaries is absent in the satyrids, and this
feature seems, outside of the sexual character of the swollen veins (traces of ..."
3. The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada: With Special by Samuel Hubbard Scudder, William Morris Davis, Charles William Woodworth, Leland Ossian Howard, Charles Valentine Riley, Samuel Wendell Williston (1889)
"... allied European butterflies, Minois phaedra and Oeneis aello and many other
satyrids, they hibernate without having eaten a morsel of vegetable food. ..."
4. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"France is, that, apart from certain groups, such as the satyrids, it is The
general impression one gets of collecting in the south of not quite so prolific ..."
5. Every-day Butterflies: A Group of Biographies by Samuel Hubbard Scudder (1899)
"It is a gamesome butterfly, and flies more strongly than most of our satyrids,
closing its wings back to back with something of a snap. ..."
6. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1883)
"... Sosybius one, this last coming nearest the true satyrids (Alope, &c.).
The heads of the young larvae, from egg, are round, or truncated ovoid, ..."
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