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Definition of Tineoid
1. Noun. Small dull-colored moth with chewing mouthparts.
Generic synonyms: Moth
Group relationships: Superfamily Tineoidea, Tineoidea
Specialized synonyms: Tineid, Tineid Moth, Gracilariid, Gracilariid Moth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tineoid
Literary usage of Tineoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1900)
"... perhaps, rather to the tineoid lower section, but approaching the higher ; it
is in fact a most interesting transitional form. THE PUPA. ..."
2. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1899)
"This view is not shared by Packard, who suggests that the earliest typo was "
allied to some tineoid which lived, not only on land, but on low herbage, ..."
3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... is of the primitive tineoid type; the smooth larvae feed on the stems or roots
of plants and the pupal structure agrees with that of _ ..."
4. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1905)
"... be first treated were those which Hampson will reach last, and at the present
rate of publication, not reach for many years, namely, the tineoid groups. ..."
5. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1905)
"The larva before us bears out this conclusion, as it is a true tineoid form, not
related to the Butterflies, but to the Cossidae and ..."
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