aphidologist en · NOUN
Etymology
From aphidology + -ist.
Meanings
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One who studies aphidology.
Thus, for example, fossil Naibiidae were described by Shcherbakov (1990, 2007) as most ancient, four-winged scale insects, but the same group is considered to be aphids by some aphidologists (see, for example, Wojciechowski 1992).
2015 July 9, Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin, Andrey V. Stekolshchikov, D.C. Gautam, “General trends of chromosomal evolution in Aphidococca (Insecta, Homoptera, Aphidinea + Coccinea)”, in Comparative Cytogenetics, volume 9, →DOI:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| aphidologists | Number=Plur | lexicographic |