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nounapionid (plural apionids)
plural apionids
- Any weevil of the family Apionidae.
These relationships of the symbionts to the Malpighian vessels, found in some of the apionids, reminds us naturally of the observations made on Empleurodes.
1965, Paul Buchner, Endosymbiosis of animals with plant microorganisms, page 181
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