Phrissoma

<i>Phrissoma</i>

Phrissoma

Genus of beetles

Phrissomides (singular Phrissoma) is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae.[1]

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Containing the following species:

Name

The term Phrissoma is formed from two Greek words, φρίσσω (phriso) which means "to be rough or uneven on the surface"[2] and σῶμα (soma) which means "body", and is applied to these insects because not only the thorax but the whole of the upper surface is covered with spikes.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Biolib.cz - Phrissoma. Retrieved on 8 September 2014.
  2. [2]
    term φρίσσω, p. 1955
  3. [3]
    John George Wood (1874). Insects Abroad: Being a Popular Account of Foreign Insects, Their Structure, Habits, and Transformations. p. 245.


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