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Definition of Diabrotica or Galeruca vittata

Diabrotica or Galeruca vittata
Squash Squash, n. [Massachusetts Indian asq, pl. asquash, raw, green, immaturate, applied to fruit and vegetables which were used when green, or without cooking; askutasquash vine apple.] (Bot.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. Note: The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is called Cucurbita verrucosa, the Barbary or China squash, C. moschata, and the great winter squash, C. maxima, but the distinctions are not clear. Squash beetle (Zo["o]l.), a small American beetle (Diabrotica, or Galeruca vittata) which is often abundant and very injurious to the leaves of squash, cucumber, etc. It is striped with yellow and black. The name is applied also to other allied species. Squash bug (Zo["o]l.), a large black American hemipterous insect (Coreus, or Anasa, tristis) injurious to squash vines.

Meaning of Diabrotica or Galeruca vittata from wikipedia

- 1799) Xanthogaleruca luteola (O. F. Müller, 1766) Galeruca laticollis (C. R. Sahlberg, 1838) Galeruca tanaceti (Linnaeus, 1758) Lochmaea caprea (Linnaeus...