Citations:thamnophile

English citations of thamnophile

1. shrikes
   • 1899, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, Thamnophilinae:

     In Swainson's classification, a subfamily of Laniidae or shrikes, containing the thamnophiles or bush-shrikes.

2. describing grasshoppers
   • 1904, Albert Pitts Morse, Researches on North American Acridiidae:

     The forested areas present two distinct kinds of habitat—trees and undergrowth—inhabited respectively by dendrophile and by thamnophile (tree-loving and thicket-loving) species.

   • 1966, Boris Petrovich Uvarov, Grasshoppers and locusts: a handbook of general acridology:

     This term is introduced to replace thamnophiles of Morse and part of thamnobionts of Bei-Bienko for the species of mainly herbaceous habitats, including dense thickets of shrubs and herbs with or without an admixture of grasses.

   • 1994 January, “Morphometrics of Life-Forms of Grasshoppers (Acridoidea Orthoptera)”, in Karnataka J. Agric. Sci., volume 7, number 2, page 174:

     They are also known as thamnophiles (Morse, 1904) or geobionts (Bei-Bienko, 1949).