单词 | flat bug |
释义 | > as lemmasflat bug flat bug n. any of the family Aradidæ of bugs, which are very flat and live chiefly under the bark of trees. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > family Aradidae > member of flat bug1895 1895 J. H. Comstock & A. B. Comstock Man. Study Insects xiv. 139 The flat-bugs..are the flattest of all bugs, the body appearing as if it had been stepped upon. 1921 Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc. 47 1 Every entomologist is in a general way familiar with the ‘flatbugs’ of the Hemipterous genus Aradus, which are often met with beneath the dead bark of trees, but no systematic treatment of the numerous..species has ever been attempted. 1923 W. E. Britton Guide Insects Connecticut iv. 11 It is believed the Aradidæ or ‘flat bugs’, are predatory on insects and other small animals. 1959 T. R. E. Southwood & D. Leston Land & Water Bugs Brit. Isles ii. 13 A. cinnamomeus differs from other flatbugs whose habits are known in not being a fungus feeder, for it lives on pine sap. < as lemmas |
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