Polyphaga
Translingual
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek πολύς (polús) "many" + Ancient Greek φαγεῖν (phageîn) "to eat", reflecting the wide variety of foods eaten across this group
Proper noun
Polyphaga
- A taxonomic suborder within the order Coleoptera – a very great number of beetles having the prothoracic pleuron not externally visible but fused with the trochantin.
- (Polyphaga f) A taxonomic genus within the family Lua error in Module:parameters at line 780: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. – a cockroach.
Hypernyms
- (suborder): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Holometabola – superorder; Coleoptera – order
Hyponyms
- (suborder): Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia, Elateriformia, Scarabaeiformia, Staphyliniformia (infraorders)
- (genus): Lua error in Module:parameters at line 780: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. - type species
References
Polyphaga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Polyphaga on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Polyphaga on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons (genus)
- Polyphaga at the Tree of Life Web Project