NOUN
- insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins
How To Use neuropterous insect In A Sentence
- Mecoptera: long-winged: neuropterous insects with similar, large, unfolded wings; mouth mandibulate, prolonged into a beak: head free; thorax agglutinated; transformations complete: the scorpion flies or Panorpidae. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
- Silence governs the narrow streets of this incredible wooden city split into whole regions of beetles and butterflies, districts of orthoptera and neuropterous insects, boulevards of beetles, streets of leaves and shield-bearer lice.
- The figures on this specimen appear to be intended as representations of some neuropterous insect, but possibly they represent birds. Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pa
- Up to the moment when the first garden has been made and planted and the first eggs are laid, the two insects, the king and queen, ordinary four-winged neuropterous insects, have been busy building their home, laying eggs like thousands of other insects around them.
- Leydig found auditory rods in the antennæ of _Dyticus marginalis_ (Furneaux [17]), the giant water-beetle, and I myself have observed them in _Corydalis cornuta_ and other neuropterous insects. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
- Research Emphases are: geological record of neuropterous insects, integration of fossil and living taxa into combined phylogenetic analyses.
- Belongs to the class of neuropterous insects called Gryllidae. Easton's Bible Dictionary
- Biomorphotica: those neuropterous insects in which the pupa is active. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
- Biological control of aphids using neuropterous insect (Chrysopa nipponensis Okamoto) larvae was investigated.
