lycid

noun

lycid

noun
1

Biology, Natural sciences, Zoology Any member of the Lycidae.

  • For an instant I thought it was a lycid, but it moved characteristically like a longhorned beetle, and I quickly realized that I had collected Elytroleptus floridanus—a quite rare southeastern U.S. species that I have only seen once before when I reared a single individual from dead oak that I collected in the Missouri bootheel (and representing a new state record).2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:
Synonyms
net-winged beetle

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