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

Horticulturist Qiang Xu of Huazhong Agricultural University in China and his colleagues recently set out to map the evolutionary journey of the orange subfamily.

From Scientific American • Oct. 11, 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