| 单词 | hister beetle |
| 释义 | > as lemmashister beetle More fully hister beetle. Any beetle of the genus Hister or (in later use) the family Histeridae, typically having an oval, hard, shiny black body (sometimes with red or orange markings) and clubbed, geniculate antennae, and most commonly living in decaying animal and plant material and dung. Also (in form Hister): the genus itself. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Staphylinoidea > member of family Histeridae hister1769 histerid1864 1769 J. Berkenhout Outl. Nat. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland I. 90 Hister. Antennæ broken in the middle with a solid bulb at the end. Head retractile. 1794 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. III. 165 Hister... Engl. The hister. 1839 J. O. Westwood Introd. Mod. Classif. Insects I. 182 Cadet de Vaux, in his History of the Mole, observes that, almost as soon as it is dead, it is attacked by a number of Histers. 1882 Entomologist 15 248 Histers are usually considered to be exceedingly hard to set, but if taken when properly relaxed they are very easy. 1925 A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. 483 Hister and its allies frequent dung and carrion. 1969 D. F. Costello Prairie World vii. 136 In succeeding days the procession of insects included fruit flies, coreid bugs, soldier flies, hister beetles, carrion beetles, and skin beetles. 2010 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 6 May 6 Native Midland insect the hister beetle vanished from England in the 19th century. < as lemmas |
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