Like all of the Coleoptera, the Mercurians were hexapoda (six legged).
He had specimens of Lasius niger who exploited a flock of Coleoptera.
Pterygium: a lateral expansion of the snout of some Coleoptera.
Sinciput: in Coleoptera; that part of the vertex between the eyes.
Umbones: two movable spines on the sides of prothorax in some Coleoptera.
Vaginata: sheathed: an obsolete ordinal term for Coleoptera.
So in a less degree does the head of the larvæ of certain Neuroptera and Coleoptera.
There is a great preponderance of Coleoptera over the other orders.
Give me the Coleoptera, and the kings of the Coleoptera are the beetles!
This is also true, but to a less extent of the larv of the Coleoptera.
1763, from Modern Latin, from Greek koleopteros, literally "sheath-wing," used by Aristotle to describe beetles, from koleos "sheath" (see cell) + pteron "wing" (see pterodactyl). Related: Coleopterous.
