harpaline
noun
- any beetle in the clade Harpalinae
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈhɑɹ.pə.lin/
adj
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Harpalinae. By surface analysis, translingual Harpalus + -ine. Further from Latin Harpalus and Ancient Greek Ἅρπαλος (Hárpalos).
- Belonging to the taxonomic subfamily Harpalinae.
“[…] some genera listed by Jeannel as selenophorines were shifted to the harpaline group, and vice versa […]”
“The harpaline genus Chydaeus includes about 25 species […]”
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Harpalinae. By surface analysis, translingual Harpalus + -ine. Further from Latin Harpalus and Ancient Greek Ἅρπαλος (Hárpalos).
- Any ground beetle of the taxonomic subfamily Harpalinae.
“In many ditomines and harpalines, the males possess four laterally extended tarsi, but both sexes climb on umbelliferous plants and other herbs with the same ease.”