pselaphine

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pselaphine (plural pselaphines)

  1. Any beetle in the subfamily Pselaphinae.
    • 2015 July 9, “The Pied Piper: A Parasitic Beetle’s Melodies Modulate Ant Behaviours”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      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 ]).

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