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单词 truffle fly
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truffle fly
truffle fly n. (a) a fly believed to produce a truffle as a kind of gall (obsolete); (b) any of various European flies of the genus Heleomyza (or Suillia) ( family Heleomyzidae), which have larvae that feed on truffles and which can be used as an indicator of the presence of truffles; (c) = truffle beetle n. (now rare).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Staphylinoidea > family Silphidae > member of genus Anisotomides (truffle-beetle)
truffle beetle1829
truffle fly1856
1856 Gardeners' Chron. 1 Nov. 724/1 That there exists a sort of fly, or Tipula, which should be called a Truffle Fly, in the same way as there is a fly called the gall insect.
1869 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 10 29 No sooner, therefore, did the hunters notice a dozen of these truffle-flies brooding over a particular spot, than they immediately set to work to dig the tubers out.
1925 R. T. Rolfe & F. W. Rolfe Romance Fungus World x. 217 In another method [of truffle-hunting] also used , the aid of the diminutive truffle-fly is invoked. This is Anisotoma cinnamomea.
1961 R. Singer Mushrooms & Truffles x. 213 The truffle flies, for example Helomyza tuberivora, and about a dozen other flies which feed on Tuber melansporum, have not been studied enough.
2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 29 Mar. a11/6 Truffles can often be detected by looking for congregations of truffle flies.
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