subfamily
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Some hematophages are well-known: For example, vampire bats in the subfamily Desmodontinae helped inspire the legendary monsters that bear their name and no one can forget blood-sucking mosquitoes and leeches.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024
Even the assignment to the subfamily Larentiinae is not entirely secure and is based on a few features like wing venation.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2023
Aleocharinae, with about 17,000 known species, is the largest subfamily within the Staphylinidae family.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023
Nasa poissoniana belongs to a subfamily of plants called Loasoideae.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2019
Collectively, the Bantu languages constitute only a single, low-order subfamily of the Niger-Congo language family.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
"Previous versions of the sunflower family tree had established the relationships among most of the subfamilies and many tribes, which are equivalent to the main branches of a tree," Ma said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2024
Of the 130 kinase types in yeast, 97 belong to the 55 subfamilies of kinases that are found in other eukaryotic organisms.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
There were dozens of subfamilies distinguished by different types of teeth, diets and reproductive styles.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2022
There is little overlap between rodent subfamilies and human-infective subfamilies, despite P. ovale being a sister taxa to the rodent-infecting species.
From Nature ● Jan. 24, 2017
But one of those subfamilies, termed Malayo-Polynesian, comprises 945 of those 959 languages and covers almost the entire geographic range of the Austronesian family.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
