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Lantern fly   Listen
noun
lantern fly, lanternfly  n.  (Zool.) Any one of several species of large, handsome, brightly marked, tropical hemipterous insects of the genera Laternaria, Fulgora, and allies, of the family Fulgoridae. The largest species is Laternaria phosphorea of Brazil. The head has a snoutlike process in some species which was formerly thought to emit a phosphorescent light.






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Words linked to "Lantern fly" :   planthopper, plant hopper, family Fulgoridae, lantern-fly, Fulgoridae



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