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English

Pytho depressus, a pythid

Noun

pythid (plural pythids)

  1. (zoology) Any beetle of the family Pythidae.
    • 1990, Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, numbers 151-155, page 5:
      Sphalma quadricollis was originally described as a pythid by Horn (1872), contrary to Watt (1987) who states that S. quadricollis was originally placed in Melandryidae.
    • 1999, L. Somme, “Cold adaptations in terrestrial invertebrates”, in Rosa Margesin, Franz Schinner, editors, Cold-Adapted Organisms: Ecology, Physiology, Enzymology and Molecular Biology, page 151:
      When the lower lethal temperatures of the chrysomelid beetle Phyllodecta laticollis or of the pythid beetle Pytho depressus is plotted against the concentrations of solutes in their hemolymph, a steep regression line appears.
    • 2005, P. J. Gullan, Peter Cranston, The Insects: An Outline of Entomology, page 369:
      Finally, pythids and belids are Batesian mimics, apparently lacking any chemical defenses.