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Definition of Sphingids
1. sphingid [n] - See also: sphingid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sphingids
Literary usage of Sphingids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"... sphingids. By JW TUTT, FES In British ... sphingids, of which Mimas tiliae,
Smerinthus ocellata and ..."
2. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1904)
"... possibly rather more generalised than the sphingids (sens, restr.), as
represented by Sphinx ligustri, but the larva of ..."
3. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1902)
"Bodine states that the Sphingid antennae give some considerable colour to the
view of a genetic relationship between the sphingids and ..."
4. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1903)
"Amherst, Mass I will give Lepidoptera, publications or cash, for Smith's "
Monograph (if the sphingids,'1 published in Vol. xv, Trans. Eut. Soc , Acad. ..."
5. The Moth Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Moths of North America by William Jacob Holland (1903)
"... being the only American genus of sphingids thus adorned, is characteristically
neotropical. It is represented in our fauna by a single species. ..."
6. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1906)
"... correspondents not to send any boxes of material for determination between
May ist and September 301(1. WANTED. — Ova of Catocala; pupa; of sphingids, ..."
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