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adj. - Covered with fine soft hairs or down.

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Usage examples (6)
  • Abdomen smooth and shining; the apical margins of the intermediate segments slightly depressed, with the sides sericeous.
  • Thorax: the disk very closely punctured, the metathorax rugose; the sides and the legs with a fine glittering sericeous pile, the wings subhyaline, their apical margins...
  • Abdomen shining, and with a fine silvery sericeous pile; the apical margins of the segments narrowly rufo-piceous; the terminal segment with an elongate, smooth, shining...
  • Thorax: the metathorax finely transversely rugose, the sides with bright silvery-white pubescence; the coxæ, the thorax beneath and on the sides, with fine silky...
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