euphorine
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euphorine (countable and uncountable, plural euphorines)
- (taxonomy, countable) A parasitic wasp of the subfamily Euphorinae (a subfamily of Braconidae), characterized by two submarginal cells in the forewing and, usually, a petiolate first gastral tergite.
- 1997, Robert Alan Wharton, Paul M. Marsh, Michael J. Sharkey, Manual of the New World genera of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera):
- Euphorines are rather unusual hymenopterans in attacking the adult stage of various insects.
- 2001, Alfred George Wheeler, Biology of the Plant Bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae), →ISBN:
- The life cycles of these euphorine parasitoids are synchronized with those of their hosts.
- 2012, Pierre H. Jolivet, M.L. Cox, E. Petitpierre, Novel aspects of the biology of Chrysomelidae, →ISBN, page 435:
- Although euphorines usually oviposit between abdominal sclerites, often near the anus, some species exhibit a well-pronounced preference for different sites such as the mouth (Wylie, 1985), whilst others are evidently more plastic in their behaviour (Wylie & Loan, 1984). It is usual for the euphorines that attack beetles to have two, or sometimes more, annual generations on a single generation of their univoltine hosts.
- (uncountable) Synonym of phenylurethan, when used medicinally.
- 1891, The Year-book of Treatment - Volume 1891, page 460:
- Dr. Sansoni (Therap. Monatsh., September, 1890) has made a number of observations on the action of euphorine in disease.
- 1891, Epitome of Medicine - Volume 8, page 317:
- Euphorine, it would appear, exerts its specific action directly on the micro-organism; but in the tissues -- in other words, in clinical cases -- this action is notably increased by the circumstance that euphorine decomposes, and the decomposition, in part, generated phenic acid.
- 2017, Henry Oldie, The End Justifies the Means, →ISBN:
- To cure Michel, who got addicted to euphorine? Well, he cured Michel. And now what?