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Definition of Family Sialidae
1. Noun. An arthropod family including: alderflies.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Megaloptera, Suborder Megaloptera
Member holonyms: Genus Sialis, Sialis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Sialidae
Literary usage of Family Sialidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"Table of Families Hind wings with an anal space 1 Hind wings with no anal space
2 1—Prothorax quadrangular when seen from above family Sialidae Prothorax ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... of the family Sialidae. related to the ant-lions, with long filamentous antennae
and four large wings, of which the anterior pair is rather longer than ..."
3. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"In the family Sialidae belongs the largest member of the order (Fig. 217) found
in the United States. This is commonly called the Corydalis or Hellgrammite ..."
4. Dry Fly Entomology: A Brief Description of Leading Types of Natural Insects by Frederic Michael Halford (1897)
"... rI ^HE family Sialidae comprises in our islands •*- only one genus—Sialis,
and of this genus two species, viz., S. lutaria and S. fuliginosa. ..."
5. The Yucca Moth and Yucca Pollination by Charles Valentine Riley (1892)
"... species of the family Sialidae, as Sialis infumata. This general resemblance
is due to certain characteristics which are quite abnormal in Lepidoptera, ..."
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