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coleoptera's Usage Examples:

Lameere, for example, considers some of his Cantharidif ormia as the most primitive Coleoptera.

Students of the Coleoptera have failed to agree not only on a system of classification, but on the relative specialization of some of the groups which'.

The Coleoptera have been probably more assiduously studied by systematic naturalists than any other order of insects.

The Coleoptera can be traced back farther in time than any other order of insects with complete transformations, if the structures that have been described from the Carboniferous rocks of Germany are really elytra.

It follows, therefore, that they have been independently acquired in the course of the evolution of the Coleoptera.

The Coleoptera are almost worldwide in their distribution, being represented in the Arctic regions and on almost all oceanic islands.

Such a typically "campodeiform" grub, moving actively about in pursuit of prey, is the one extreme of larval structure to be noticed among the Coleoptera.

For the relationship of the Coleoptera to other orders of insects see Hexapoda.

Albinism is restricted to no particular class of the animal kingdom; for partial albinism at least is known to occur in Coelentera, worms, Crustacea, Myriapoda, Coleoptera,Arachnida and fishes.

The wings of Coleoptera (including the elytra) are described and discussed by F.

coleoptera's Meaning':

beetles

Synonyms:

family Scolytidae, family Cicindelidae, Gyrinidae, Elateridae, Cicindelidae, family Staphylinidae, Lampyridae, superfamily Lamellicornia, Curculionidae, family Curculionidae, family Lampyridae, order Coleoptera, family Meloidae, family Chrysomelidae, animal order, Insecta, Chrysomelidae, Cerambycidae, beetle, Dermestidae, Carabidae, family Anobiidae, family Coccinellidae, family Cleridae, family Dermestidae, Staphylinidae, Anobiidae, Hexapoda, family Tenebrionidae, family Carabidae, Ipidae, Tenebrionidae, Lamellicornia, Cleridae, family Elateridae, family Cerambycidae, class Hexapoda, family Dytiscidae, Scolytidae, Bruchidae, family Gyrinidae, family Bruchidae, Meloidae, family Ipidae, class Insecta, Coccinellidae, Dytiscidae,

Antonyms:

stay in place, intrusive,