English > arthropod family: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Any of the arthropods. |
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| Member of | Animalia, kingdom Animalia, animal kingdom | taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals |
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| Narrower | Acaridae, family Acaridae | mites |
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| Acrididae, family Acrididae, Locustidae, family Locustidae | short-horned grasshoppers |
| Adelgidae, family Adelgidae | plant lice |
| Aleyrodidae, family Aleyrodidae | whiteflies |
| Andrenidae, family Andrenidae | A large family of solitary short-tongued bees most of which burrow in the ground |
| Anobiidae, family Anobiidae | deathwatch beetles |
| Aphididae, family Aphididae | small soft-bodied plant lice |
| Aphidoidea, superfamily Aphidoidea | plant lice |
| Apidae, family Apidae | honeybees |
| Apoidea, superfamily Apoidea | bees |
| Arctiidae, family Arctiidae | tiger moths |
| Argasidae, family Argasidae | soft ticks |
| Argiopidae, family Argiopidae, orb-weaver | Spiders that spin orb webs |
| Armadillidiidae, family Armadillidiidae | pill bugs |
| Asilidae, family Asilidae | robber flies |
| Astacidae, family Astacidae, Astacura | crayfish |
| Atropidae, family Atropidae | booklice |
| Balanidae, family Balanidae | stalkless barnacles |
| Belostomatidae, family Belostomatidae | water bugs |
| Blattidae, family Blattidae | domestic cockroaches |
| Bombycidae, family Bombycidae | Chinese silkworm moth |
| Bombyliidae, family Bombyliidae | bee flies |
| Bruchidae, family Bruchidae | seed beetles |
| Calliphoridae, family Calliphoridae | blowflies |
| Cancridae, family Cancridae | Many of the best known edible crabs |
| Carabidae, family Carabidae | ground beetles |
| Cecidomyidae, family Cecidomyidae | gall midges |
| Cerambycidae, family Cerambycidae | long-horned beetles |
| Ceratopogonidae, family Ceratopogonidae | biting midges |
| Cercopidae, family Cercopidae | froghoppers or spittlebugs |
| Cetoniidae, subfamily Cetoniidae | Considered a separate family in some classification systems |
| Chalcididae, family Chalcididae, Chalcidae, family Chalcidae | An arthropod family including |
| Chironomidae, family Chironomidae | midges |
| Chrysomelidae, family Chrysomelidae | leaf beetles |
| Chrysopidae, family Chrysopidae | green lacewings |
| Cicadellidae, family Cicadellidae | leafhoppers |
| Cicadidae, family Cicadidae | cicadas |
| Cicindelidae, family Cicindelidae | tiger beetles |
| Cimicidae, family Cimicidae | wingless flat-bodied bloodsucking insects |
| Cleridae, family Cleridae | beetles that prey on other insects |
| Coccidae, family Coccidae | scale insects |
| Coccinellidae, family Coccinellidae | The ladybugs |
| Coccoidea, superfamily Coccoidea | scale insects and mealybugs |
| Coreidae, family Coreidae | squash bugs and leaf-footed bugs |
| Corixidae, family Corixidae | water bugs |
| Corydalidae, family Corydalidae | dobsons |
| Crangonidae, family Crangonidae | shrimps |
| Cryptocercidae, family Cryptocercidae | A family of Blattodea |
| Ctenizidae, family Ctenizidae | large burrowing spiders |
| Culicidae, family Culicidae | mosquitoes |
| Curculionidae, family Curculionidae | true weevils |
| Cuterebridae, family Cuterebridae | New World botflies |
| Cynipidae, family Cynipidae | A family of Hymenoptera |
| Dactylopiidae, family Dactylopiidae | cochineal insects |
| Danaidae, family Danaidae | small family of usually tropical butterflies |
| Dermestidae, family Dermestidae | carpet beetles |
| Diaspididae, family Diaspididae | armored scales |
| Dorylinae, subfamily Dorylinae | army ants |
| Drosophilidae, family Drosophilidae | fruit flies |
| Dytiscidae, family Dytiscidae | water beetles |
| Elateridae, family Elateridae | click beetles and certain fireflies |
| Ephemeridae, family Ephemeridae | mayflies |
| Forficulidae, family Forficulidae | typical earwigs |
| Formicidae, family Formicidae | ants |
| Fulgoridae, family Fulgoridae | plant hoppers |
| Gasterophilidae, family Gasterophilidae | horse botflies |
| Gelechiidae, family Gelechiidae | Important economic pests |
| Geometridae, family Geometridae | measuring worms |
| Geophilidae, family Geophilidae | small extremely elongate centipedes that live in earth |
| Gerrididae, family Gerrididae, Gerridae, family Gerridae | An arthropod family that includes water striders |
| Glossinidae, family Glossinidae | flies closely related to the Muscidae |
| Gracilariidae, Gracillariidae, family Gracilariidae | leaf miners |
| Gryllidae, family Gryllidae | crickets |
| Gyrinidae, family Gyrinidae | whirligig beetles |
| Halictidae, family Halictidae | A family of small solitary bees |
| Hemerobiidae, family Hemerobiidae | brown lacewings |
| Hippoboscidae, family Hippoboscidae | winged or wingless dipterans |
| Homaridae, family Homaridae | large-clawed lobsters |
| Ichneumonidae, family Ichneumonidae | ichneumon flies |
| Ixodidae, family Ixodidae | hard ticks |
| Jassidae, family Jassidae | family of small leafhoppers coextensive with the Cicadellidae and not distinguished from it in some classifications |
| Kalotermitidae, family Kalotermitidae | Primitive termites of warm regions |
| Lamellicornia, superfamily Lamellicornia | scarabaeid beetles and stag beetles |
| Lampyridae, family Lampyridae | fireflies |
| Lasiocampidae, family Lasiocampidae | tent caterpillars |
| Lepadidae, family Lepadidae | goose barnacles |
| Lepismatidae, family Lepismatidae | firebrats |
| Limulidae, family Limulidae | horseshoe crabs |
| Lithodidae, family Lithodidae | Deep-sea crabs of cold waters |
| Lucanidae, family Lucanidae | stag beetles |
| Lycaenidae, family Lycaenidae | family of small usually brilliantly colored butterflies |
| Lycosidae, family Lycosidae | wolf spiders |
| Lygaeidae, family Lygaeidae | lygaeid bugs |
| Lymantriidae, family Lymantriidae | tussock moths |
| Machilidae, family Machilidae | jumping bristletails |
| Majidae, family Majidae | spider crabs |
| Mantidae, family Mantidae, Manteidae, family Manteidae | mantises |
| Mantispidae, family Mantispidae | mantispids |
| Mastotermitidae, family Mastotermitidae | Primitive termites |
| Megachilidae, family Megachilidae | leaf-cutting and mason bees |
| Meloidae, family Meloidae | blister beetles |
| Melolonthidae, subfamily Melolonthidae | Considered a separate family in some classification systems |
| Membracidae, family Membracidae | plant hoppers |
| Miridae, family Miridae, Capsidae, family Capsidae | leaf bugs |
| Muscidae, family Muscidae | Two-winged flies especially the housefly |
| Muscoidea, superfamily Muscoidea | Two-winged flies especially the families |
| Mycetophilidae, family Mycetophylidae | fungus gnats |
| Myrmeleontidae, family Myrmeleontidae | antlions |
| Mysidae, family Mysidae | small shrimp-like crustaceans |
| Nephropsidae, family Nephropsidae | In some classifications coextensive with the Homaridae |
| Nepidae, family Nepidae | water scorpions |
| Noctuidae, family Noctuidae | cutworms |
| Notonectidae, family Notonectidae | aquatic carnivorous insects |
| Nymphalidae, family Nymphalidae | large beautifully colored butterflies |
| Oestridae, family Oestridae, Hypodermatidae, family Hypodermatidae | warble flies |
| Oniscidae, family Oniscidae | A family of Isopoda |
| Orchestiidae, family Orchestiidae | beach fleas |
| Paguridae, family Paguridae | hermit crabs |
| Palaemonidae, family Palaemonidae | prawns |
| Palinuridae, family Palinuridae | spiny lobsters |
| Pediculidae, family Pediculidae | true lice |
| Peneidae, family Peneidae | tropical prawns |
| Peripatidae, family Peripatidae | A family of Onychophora |
| Peripatopsidae, family Peripatopsidae | A family of Onychophora |
| Phalangiidae, family Phalangiidae | A family of Phalangida |
| Phasmidae, family Phasmidae, Phasmatidae, family Phasmatidae | stick insects |
| Phthiriidae, family Phthiriidae | crab lice |
| Phyllidae, family Phyllidae, Phillidae, family Phillidae | leaf insects |
| Phylloxeridae, family Phylloxeridae | plant lice |
| Pieridae, family Pieridae | arthropod family including cabbage butterflies |
| Pinnotheridae, family Pinnotheridae | tiny soft-bodied crabs |
| Porcellionidae, family Porcellionidae | sow bugs |
| Portunidae, family Portunidae | swimming crabs |
| Pseudococcidae, family Pseudococcidae | scalelike insects |
| Psocidae, family Psocidae | A family of small soft-bodied insects that feed on decaying vegetation |
| Psychodidae, family Psychodidae | Very small two-winged flies with hairy wings that develop in moss and damp vegetable matter |
| Psyllidae, family Psyllidae, Chermidae, family Chermidae | jumping plant lice |
| Pulicidae, family Pulicidae | Many common fleas attacking humans and domestic animals |
| Pyralidae, family Pyralidae, Pyralididae, family Pyralididae | bee moths |
| Pyrrhocoridae, family Pyrrhocoridae | firebugs |
| Raphidiidae, family Raphidiidae | A family of arthropods of the suborder Megaloptera, including snakeflies |
| Reduviidae, family Reduviidae | assassin bugs |
| Rhinotermitidae, family Rhinotermitidae | large widely distributed family of termites of temperate to tropical regions |
| Sarcoptidae, family Sarcoptidae | small whitish mites |
| Saturniidae, family Saturniidae | Important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known |
| Satyridae, family Satyridae | A widely distributed family of butterflies common near the edges of woods |
| Scarabaeidae, family Scarabaeidae | scarab or dung beetles |
| Sciaridae, family Sciaridae | fungus gnats |
| Scolytidae, family Scolytidae, Ipidae, family Ipidae | large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles |
| Scutigeridae, family Scutigeridae | A family of Chilopoda |
| Sialidae, family Sialidae | An arthropod family including |
| Simuliidae, family Simuliidae | blackflies and sand flies |
| Sisyridae, family Sisyridae | An arthropod family of the order Neuroptera that includes spongeflies |
| Sphecidae, family Sphecidae | mud daubers |
| Sphecoidea, superfamily Sphecoidea | families ... / families Sphecidae and Stizidae |
| Sphingidae, family Sphingidae | hawkmoths |
| Squillidae, family Squillidae | crustaceans that burrow in mud or under stones / stones in shallow water along the seashore |
| Staphylinidae, family Staphylinidae | rove beetles |
| Stenopelmatidae, family Stenopelmatidae | long-horned grasshoppers |
| Stizidae, family Stizidae | cicada killers |
| Tabanidae, family Tabanidae | horseflies |
| Tachinidae, family Tachinidae | parasites on other insects |
| Tenebrionidae, family Tenebrionidae | A family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms |
| Tenthredinidae, family Tenthredinidae | sawflies |
| Termitidae, family Termitidae | termites |
| Tetranychidae, family Tetranychidae | plant-feeding mites |
| Tettigoniidae, family Tettigoniidae | long-horned grasshoppers |
| Theraphosidae, family Theraphosidae | large tropical spiders |
| Theridiidae, family Theridiidae | A family of comb-footed spiders |
| Thripidae, family Thripidae | thrips |
| Tineidae, family Tineidae | clothes moths |
| Tineoidea, superfamily Tineoidea | clothes moths |
| Tingidae, family Tingidae | lace bugs |
| Tipulidae, family Tipulidae | crane flies |
| Tortricidae, family Tortricidae | leaf rollers and codling moths |
| Triopidae, family Triopidae | A family of Notostraca |
| Trombiculidae, family Trombiculidae | mites |
| Trombidiidae, family Trombidiidae | mites |
| Trypetidae, family Trypetidae, Trephritidae, family Trephritidae | fruit flies |
| Vespidae, family Vespidae | An arthropod family of the order Hymenoptera including |
| Broader | family | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera |
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| Spanish | artrópodos |
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| Catalan | artròpodes |
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