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harpaline

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Adjective

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harpaline (not comparable)

  1. (zoology) Belonging to the taxonomic tribe Harpalini.
    • 1959, The Coleopterists' Bulletin, volume 13, page 61:
      […] some genera listed by Jeannel as selenophorines were shifted to the harpaline group, and vice versa […]
    • 2004, Spixiana, volumes 27-28, page 21:
      The harpaline genus Chydaeus includes about 25 species […]

Noun

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harpaline (plural harpalines)

  1. (zoology) Any member of the taxonomic tribe Harpalini.
    • 2000, Pietro Brandmayr, Natural History and Applied Ecology of Carabid Beetles, page 87:
      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.
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