Terms vs Cucujoid - What's the difference?
terms | cucujoid |
Any beetle of the superfamily Cucujoidea.
* 1991 , Herbert Holdsworth Ross, Charles Alexander Ross, June R. P. Ross, A Textbook of Entomology ,
* 2006 , James T. Costa, The Other Insect Societies ,
* 2010 , George Hangay, Paul Zborowski, A Guide to the Beetles of Australia ,
* 2013 , John F. Lawrence, ?Adam ?lipi?ski, Australian Beetles , Volume 1: Morphology, Classification and Keys,
As nouns the difference between terms and cucujoid
is that terms is while cucujoid is any beetle of the superfamily cucujoidea.cucujoid
English
Noun
(en noun)page 376,
- This line gave rise to the bostrichoids, in which all the spiracles in the adult remained functional, and the cucujoids , in which the spiracle on the adult eighth abdominal segment became nonfunctional.
page 499,
- The cucujoid superfamily is a large and diverse assemblage of over 30 families, including a host of rarities as well as a few very well-known groups (particularly ladybird and sap beetles, Coccinellidae and Nitidulidae, respectively).
page 42,
- The beetle families in this superfamily are so diverse in appearance that it is rather difficult to summarise their common characteristics by which the non-specialist could recognise them as cucujoids .
page 62,
- This condition is characteristic of Cleroidea but also occurs in the cucujoid families Biphyllidae and Byturidae.
