- pigeon horntail
- noun
or pigeon tremex
: a large American horntail (Tremex columba) having a burrowing larva that is preyed upon by a large ichneumon fly (Thallesa lunator)
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Horntail — Taxobox name = Horntails image width = 250px image caption = Giant horntail ( Urocerus gigas ) regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hymenoptera subordo = Symphyta superfamilia = Siricoidea familia = Siricidae subdivision … Wikipedia
pigeon tremex — noun see pigeon horntail … Useful english dictionary
horntail — /hawrn tayl /, n. any of various wasplike insects of the family Siricidae, the females of which have a hornlike ovipositor. [1880 85; HORN + TAIL1] * * * ▪ wasp any of about 85 species of solitary (nonsocial), primitive wasps (order Hymenoptera) … Universalium
Megarhyssa macrurus — female Scientific classification Kingdom: An … Wikipedia
megarhyssa — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷+ noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from mega + Rhyssa : a genus of large ichneumon flies having an extremely long slender ovipositor and including a common species (M. lunator ) of the eastern United States that is a… … Useful english dictionary
Tremex — Tre mex, n. [NL.] (Zo[ o]l.) A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Tremex columba — Tremex Tre mex, n. [NL.] (Zo[ o]l.) A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
