Sentence examples for a genus of insect from inspiring English sources

Issus is a genus of insect that hops from plant to plant using unusually powerful legs.

Fire ant (genus Solenopsis), also called thief ant, any of a genus of insects in the family Formicidae, order Hymenoptera, that occur in tropical regions of the world, such as Central and South America, and in some temperate regions, such as North America.

This week young members of a genus of stocky little insects called Issus were shown to use gearing in their legs to hop around plants.This is believed to be the first observation of mechanical gearing in a biological structure.

At face value, this result implies that the evolution of genes within a single genus of insects is subject to a much greater variability of evolution rates than the evolution of diverse gene families that span the entire depth of the history of cellular life.

Nasonia, a genus of four closely related parasitoid insect species, is a model system for genetic research.

Zika is a mosquito-borne disease that normally has symptoms similar to the dengue and chikungunya viruses, which are spread by the same genus of insect.

Timema is a genus of relatively short-bodied, stout stick insects native to the far western United States.

Cordyceps mushroom is a genus of ascomycete fungi that are mainly found on insects and other arthropods [8].

Chilis belong to Capsicum, a genus of the nightshade family.

…of Gyromitra, a genus of false morels, are poisonous.

Batrachotomus is a genus of prehistoric archosaur.