lycid

plural lycids

1. biologyAny member of the Lycidae.

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   For an instant I thought it was a lycid, but it moved characteristically like a longhorned beetle, and I quickly realized that I had collected Elytroleptus floridanus—a quite rare southeastern U.S. species that I have only seen once before when I reared a single individual from dead oak that I collected in the Missouri bootheel (and representing a new state record).

   2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae

   Synonyms: net-winged beetle