a. and sb. Ent. [f. LAPARO- + Gr. στικτ-ός spotted, vbl. adj. f. στίζειν to prick.] a. adj. Of scarabæid beetles: Having abdominal spiracles in the membrane connecting the dorsal and ventral corneous plates. b. sb. A laparostict beetle.
1882. Amer. Nat., XXII. 951. This genus [Pleocoma], which he insisted was a Laparostict, and not a Pleurostict Lamellicorn.
