winged beetle
1feather-winged beetle — ▪ insect any of more than 400 species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) characterized by long fringes of hair on the long, narrow hindwings. The antennae also have whorls of long hairs. Most feather winged beetles are oval and between… …
2net-winged beetle — ▪ insect any of some 2,800 species of soft bodied, brightly coloured, predominately tropical beetles (insect order Coleoptera) whose wing covers, or elytra, are broader at the tip than at the base and are characterized by a raised network… …
3Beetle — Beetles redirects here. For the band, see The Beatles. For the car, see Volkswagen Beetle. This article is about the insect. For other uses, see Beetle (disambiguation). Beetle Temporal range: 318–0 Ma …
4Beetle — (Heb. hargol, meaning leaper ). Mention of it is made only in Lev. 11:22, where it is obvious the word cannot mean properly the beetle. It denotes some winged creeper with at least four feet, which has legs above its feet, to leap withal. The… …
5Bee beetle — Bee Bee (b[=e]), n. [AS. be[ o]; akin to D. bij and bije, Icel. b[=y], Sw. & Dan. bi, OHG. pini, G. biene, and perh. Ir. beach, Lith. bitis, Skr. bha. [root]97.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) An insect of the order {Hymenoptera}, and family {Apid[ae]} (the… …
6White-winged Fairy-wren — Taxobox name = White winged Fairy wren image caption = ssp. leuconotus Coolmunda Dam, nr Inglewood, Qld status = LC status system = iucn3.1 status ref =IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2004|id=50686|title=Malurus… …
7Zayante Band-Winged Grasshopper — Taxobox name = Zayante Band Winged Grasshopper status = EN | status system = IUCN2.3 regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Orthoptera familia = Acrididae genus = Trimerotropis species = T. infantilis binomial =… …
8Red-winged Starling — Female Red winged Starling Conservation status …
9White-winged Chough — Perched on a eucalypt Conservation status …
10Wheat beetle — Wheat Wheat (hw[=e]t), n. [OE. whete, AS. hw[=ae]te; akin to OS. hw[=e]ti, D. weit, G. weizen, OHG. weizzi, Icel. hveiti, Sw. hvete, Dan. hvede, Goth. hwaiteis, and E. white. See {White}.] (Bot.) A cereal grass ({Triticum vulgare}) and its grain …
