coccinelloid
English
Etymology
Clipping of translingual Coccinelloidea
Noun
coccinelloid (plural coccinelloids)
- Any beetle of the superfamily Coccinelloidea.
- 2022 November 24, Emmanuel Arriaga-Varela, Wioletta Tomaszewska, Karol Szawaryn, James Robertson, Matthias Seidel, Adam Ślipiński, Martin Fikáček, “The resurrection of Cerasommatidiidae, an enigmatic group of coccinelloid beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea) based on molecular and morphological evidence”, in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society:
- Based on that phylogenetic hypothesis, the taxonomic definitions of many coccinelloid groups were reconsidered.
- 2017 June 26, Hermes E. Escalona, Andreas Zwick, Hao-Sen Li, Jiahui Li, Xingmin Wang, Hong Pang, Diana Hartley, Lars S. Jermiin, Oldřich Nedvěd, Bernhard Misof, Oliver Niehuis, Adam Ślipiński, Wioletta Tomaszewska, “Molecular phylogeny reveals food plasticity in the evolution of true ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Coccinellini)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- Coccinellidae, which comprises 360 genera and about 6000 species world-wide, is by far the largest family of coccinelloid beetles and, with the notable exception of the parasitic Bothrideridae, the only predominantly predatory lineage of Coccinelloidea.
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