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plant-louse|ˈplɑːntlaʊs, -æ-|
a. Any small hemipterous insect that infests plants; esp. an aphis.
1805P. Wakefield Dom. Recreat. iv, It is called the aphis, puceron, vine-fretter, or plant-louse. 1815Kirby & Sp. Entomol. iii. (1818) I. 67 Hemiptera, consisting of Bugs, Cicadæ,..Plant-lice. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 2 In the aphis (puceron or green-plant louse) through all its divisions. 1840J. & M. Loudon tr. Köllar's Treatise on Insects ii. 149 The plant-lice are especial enemies to various sorts of culinary vegetables. 1899B. S. Cragin Our Insect Friends & Foes 228 Family Aphididæ. These are the Plant-lice, some with wings and some without. 1932E. Step Wasps, Ants & Allied Insects Brit. Isles 79 Like that of most of the other Black Wasps, its special prey is the Plant-louse (Aphis). 1968R. Lowell Notebook (1969) 48 The lily pads bright as mica, swarming with plant-lice. 1973W. S. Romoser Science of Entomology xi. 346 Especially significant families are Psyllidae, jumping plant lice,..Aphididæ, aphids or plant lice, [etc.].
b. Comb. plant-louse-lion [after ant-lion], an ‘aphis-lion’, which preys on aphides, the larva of various Hemerobiidæ, or lace-winged flies.
1805P. Wakefield Dom. Recreat. iv, An insect called the plant-louse-lion. |