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Definition of Pierids
1. pierid [n] - See also: pierid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pierids
Literary usage of Pierids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1900)
"GROTE—THE DESCENT OF THE pierids. [Jan. 5, M1, which ascends the radius to a
little less than one-third of the distance between cross-vein and external ..."
2. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"Inasmuch as the pierids and ... it seems that they must have evolved from a common
ancestor, rather than that the pierids, ..."
3. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1908)
"from non-gregarious pierids, or rice versa, although one may safely assume a ...
Similarly, the pierids are, in the mass, solitary, and had a solitary ..."
4. Animal Coloration: An Account of the Principal Facts and Theories Relating by Frank Evers Beddard (1892)
"It is just possible that this principle may be also applied to the mimicking
pierids. The general belief appears to be that these insects are sweet and ..."
5. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1903)
"In my "Descent of the pierids," Jan., 1900, ... Iris., VIL, 56, for a genus of
Andean pierids, but this name is preoccupied in the Lepidoptera by Zeller, ..."
6. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1877)
"... while those of the pierids have closer resemblance to the eggs of Hesperides.J We
find therefore that in the very peculiarities of their structure ..."
7. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Entomological Section (1890)
"These poor pierids were nearly starved by the long season of rain, and were
crawling about upon an umbel of daucus trying to feed; they could not fly, ..."
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