lycid

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lycid (plural lycids)

  1. (zoology) Any member of the Lycidae.
    • 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae‎:
      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).

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