Definition of Family Coreidae

1. Noun. Squash bugs and leaf-footed bugs.

Exact synonyms: Coreidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Hemiptera, Order Hemiptera
Member holonyms: Coreid, Coreid Bug, Anasa, Genus Anasa, Genus Leptoglossus, Leptoglossus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Coreidae

family Colubridae
family Columbidae
family Comatulidae
family Combretaceae
family Commelinaceae
family Compositae
family Congridae
family Connaraceae
family Convallariaceae
family Convolvulaceae
family Coprinaceae
family Coraciidae
family Cordaitaceae
family Cordylidae
family Coregonidae
family Coreidae (current term)
family Corixidae
family Cornaceae
family Cortinariaceae
family Corvidae
family Corydalidae
family Corylaceae
family Corynebacteriaceae
family Coryphaenidae
family Cotingidae
family Cottidae
family Cracidae
family Cracticidae
family Crangonidae

Literary usage of Family Coreidae

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

1. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"family Coreidae.—Many of the members of this large family are of considerable size for bugs, some being over an inch long, but their bodies are much more ..."

2. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Entomological Section (1901)
"Distant, WL Revision of the Rhyn- chota belonging to the family Coreidae in the Hope Collection at Oxford, 2 pis., 14. Howard, LO On the habits of ..."

3. Introduction to Entomology by James Duncan, Sir William Jardine (1860)
"PLATE XX Fig. 2. Cimex flaveolus, Drury iii. pi. 43, fig. 3. THIS is another member of the family Coreidae which ..."

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