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71lizard beetle — ▪ insect also called Languriid Beetle, any of some 400 species of long, narrow beetles (insect order Coleoptera), most of which are found in Asia and North America. Adult lizard beetles are 2 to 10 mm (0.1 to 0.4 inch) long, are reddish… …
72soldier beetle — ▪ insect any member of the approximately 3,500 species of the widely distributed insect family Cantharidae (order Coleoptera). These slender, soft bodied beetles are brown or black and trimmed like a soldier s uniform with red, yellow, or… …
73Japanese beetle — noun A species of beetle with iridescent copper colored elytra and green thorax and head, taxonomic name Popillia japonica …
74Hercules beetle — noun a very large tropical American rhinoceros beetle, the male of which has two long curved horns extending from the head and one from the thorax. [Dynastes hercules.] …
75rhinoceros beetle — noun a very large mainly tropical beetle, the male of which has a curved horn on the head and typically another on the thorax. [Oryctes rhinoceros and other species.] …
76deathwatch beetle — /dɛθwɒtʃ ˈbitl/ (say dethwoch beetl) noun any of certain woodboring beetles of the family Anobiidae which infest timbers. {from the belief that the ticking sound, made by the beetle tapping its head against wood to attract a mate, was an omen of… …
77rhinoceros beetle — n. any of several medium to very large, dark colored, tropical scarab beetles: so called because of a hornlike projection on the head of the male …
78rhinoceros beetle — noun any of various large chiefly tropical beetles having horns on the head; pest on coconuts • Hypernyms: ↑scarabaeid beetle, ↑scarabaeid, ↑scarabaean …
79rhinoceros beetle — noun Date: 1681 any of various large chiefly tropical scarab beetles (subfamily Dynastinae) having projecting horns on thorax and head …
80seed beetle — any of several beetles of the family Bruchidae that infest the seeds of legumes. Also called seed weevil. * * * ▪ insect any of some 900 species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) whose larvae live in and feed on dried seeds. Seed beetles …
