Definition of Mutillidae

1. Noun. A family of wasps.

Exact synonyms: Family Mutillidae
Generic synonyms: Hymenopter, Hymenopteran, Hymenopteron, Hymenopterous Insect
Member holonyms: Velvet Ant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mutillidae

Mustela putorius
Mustela rixosa
Mustela vison
Mustelidae
Mustelus
Mustelus canis
Mustelus mustelus
Mustelus norrisi
Mustique
Mutamycin
Mutawa
Mutawa'een
Muth-labben
Muthammani
Muthammanis
Mutillidae (current term)
Mutinus
Mutinus caninus
Mutsuhito
Mutsun
Mutt-and-Jeff
Mutt and Jeff
Mutton Jeff
Muwekma
Muybridge
Muybridgean
Muz Tagh Ata
Muzaffarabad
Muzak
Muzarab

Literary usage of Mutillidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Russian Central Asia: Including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv by Henry Lansdell (1885)
"... Askhabad and Merv, and among the Hymenoptera collected about Askhabad (the description of which is in the press) are the following Mutillidae :— Agama ..."

2. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1899)
"... series of the Mutillidae, and the closely allied families, and have been able to correlate the sexes of most of the genera, either from specimens bred, ..."

3. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1904)
"Melander, on Mutillidae—both containing erroneous interpretations of Spanish-American geographical names. I would not offer any criticism at this time, ..."

4. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1907)
"... and Mutillidae; the first two families being considered by many authors as only subfamilies of Mutillidae. These groups are very poorly represented in ..."

5. Spolia Zeylanica by National Museums of Sri Lanka, National Museums of Ceylon (1908)
"Most of the Mutillidae were collected by Mi-. ... Most characteristic of the Ceylon Mutillidae is the abundance of species in which the posterior margin of ..."

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