Meanings
- not comparablerareThat eats whitefly (of the family Aleyrodidae)
This review surveys the literature dealing with food relationships of coccidophagous, aleurodophagous and psyllophagous coccinellids.
2009 November 28, Biological Control, volume 51, number 2, page 2321 more example
Saharaoui & Gourreau (1994) list six different diets for lady beetles, which can be aphidophagous, coccidophagous, mycophagous, aleurodophagous, acarophagous and phytophagous.
2014, R. Canovai, “Ladybirds in Tuscan vineyards (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae”, in IOBC-WPRS, volume 105, page 241
Origin
Possibly from taxonomic name Aleyrodidae + -o- + -phagous
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French aleurodiphage
- aleurodiphageTranslations
Ukrainian той хто живиться комахами
- той хто живиться комахами (toj xto žyvytʹsja komaxamy)Translations
Cite this entry
aleurodophagous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aleurodophagous
“aleurodophagous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aleurodophagous. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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