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pselaphines

pselaphines is the plural of pselaphine.

Meaning of pselaphine

Noun

pselaphine (plural pselaphines)

  1. Any beetle in the subfamily Pselaphinae.
    • Indeed, chemically based protection for life with ants has independently evolved in a broad range of myrmecophilous invertebrates (e.g., pselaphine rove beetles [3 ] ant nest beetles [4 ,5 ], lycaenid butterflies [6 ], and spiders [7 ]).2015 July 9, “The Pied Piper: A Parasitic Beetle’s Melodies Modulate Ant Behaviours”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
    Synonyms:
    short-winged mold beetle

Questions about pselaphines

What is pselaphines the plural of?
Pselaphines is the plural of pselaphine.

Words near pselaphines in the dictionary

  1. psechrids
  2. Psel
  3. pselaphid
  4. pselaphids
  5. pselaphine
  6. pselaphines
  7. psellism
  8. psellismus
  9. pseph-
  10. psephenid
  11. psephenids

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