• Tribus

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    Full definition of tribus

    Noun

    tribus

    (plural tribus or +)
    1. (taxonomy) Synonym of en
      • 1963, The entire Tenebrionid fauna of this region is constituted by genera or tribuses whose present area of distribution is of the pattern called by Mayr "pan tropical" and by Vandel "gondwanian".
      • 1965, A Revision of the West African Eilemic Moths, Based on the Male Genitalia, It might therefore be justified to separate them from the remaining genera of the subfamily Lithosinae as a tribus with two subtribus, or as two tribus.
      • 1990, Cornelis Bas, Flora Agaricina Neerlandica: Critical monographs on families of agarics and boleti occurring in the Netherlands Chapter Tricholomataceae R.Heim ex Pouz, In this Flora distinctly sarcodimitic species are allowed in two tribus, viz. Xeruleae and Myceneae.

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