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Trichoptera   Listen
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Trichoptera  n. pl.  (Zool.) A suborder of Neuroptera usually having the wings covered with minute hairs. It comprises the caddice flies, and is considered by some to be a distinct order.





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"Trichoptera" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Clothes-moth caterpillars leads us naturally to consider the similar habit adopted by their allies the Caddis-larvae which live in the waters of ponds and streams, for the Caddis-flies (Trichoptera) have much in common with the more primitive Lepidoptera. The caddis-larva is as a rule of the eruciform type, but with well-developed thoracic legs, and with hook-like tail-appendages; by means of the latter it anchors itself to the ...
— The Life-Story of Insects • Geo. H. Carpenter


Words linked to "Trichoptera" :   trichopteran, trichopteron, order Trichoptera, strawworm, class Hexapoda, caddisworm, Hexapoda, animal order, Insecta, trichopterous insect


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