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Coleoptera

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Co`le`op´te`ra
n. pl.1.(Zool.) An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillæ) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils.
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Noun1.ColeopteraColeoptera - beetles
animal order - the order of animals
class Hexapoda, class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta - insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species
beetle - insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
Carabidae, family Carabidae - ground beetles
Cerambycidae, family Cerambycidae - long-horned beetles
Cleridae, family Cleridae - beetles that prey on other insects
Lamellicornia, superfamily Lamellicornia - scarabaeid beetles and stag beetles
Elateridae, family Elateridae - click beetles and certain fireflies
Dytiscidae, family Dytiscidae - water beetles
family Gyrinidae, Gyrinidae - whirligig beetles
Anobiidae, family Anobiidae - deathwatch beetles
Curculionidae, family Curculionidae - true weevils: snout beetles
family Meloidae, Meloidae - blister beetles
family Ipidae, family Scolytidae, Ipidae, Scolytidae - large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees
family Tenebrionidae, Tenebrionidae - a family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms
Bruchidae, family Bruchidae - seed beetles

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I was disappointed in the general aspect of the Coleoptera.
The insects in Madeira which are not ground-feeders, and which, as the flower-feeding coleoptera and lepidoptera, must habitually use their wings to gain their subsistence, have, as Mr.
Peculiarly rich in the coleoptera and in the lepidoptera, forty-six new species of the one and ninety-four of the other had been secured in the course of a few weeks.
 
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