Aphidologist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who studies aphidology.

    "Thus, for example, fossil Naibiidae were described by Shcherbakov (1990, 2007) as most ancient, four-winged scale insects, but the same group is considered to be aphids by some aphidologists (see, for example, Wojciechowski 1992)."

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"Thus, for example, fossil Naibiidae were described by Shcherbakov (1990, 2007) as most ancient, four-winged scale insects, but the same group is considered to be aphids by some aphidologists (see, for example, Wojciechowski 1992)."

Etymology

From aphidology + -ist.

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