lycid

English

Noun

lycid (plural lycids)

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

     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).

Synonyms

• net-winged beetle

Anagrams

• Lydic