Search the Dictionary

One of the Coleoptera.

uth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillæ) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils.

Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.

One of the order of Coleoptera.

One versed in the study of the Coleoptera.

Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera. Beetle mite (Zoöl.), one of many species of mites, of the family Oribatidæ, parasitic on beetles. -- Black beetle, the common large black cockroach (Blatta orientalis…

A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.

One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.

A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvæ of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.

A division of Coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi.

One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair. See Coleoptera.

A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvæ of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments. Like a glowworm in the night, The which hath fire in darkness, none in light. Shak.

A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi.

Having antennæ terminating in a group of flat lamellæ; -- said of certain coleopterous insects.

A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms.

See Coleoptera and Sea devil.

The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

An extensive division of Coleoptera, including those that normally have five-jointed tarsi. It embraces about half of all the known species of the Coleoptera.

The dorsal plate of the prothorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.