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Cantharis
Cantharis is a large genus of soldier beetles in the family Cantharidae with narrow and soft elytra. The poisonous Spanish fly is superficially similar and is associated with the scientific name Cantharis vesicatoria. It is also sometimes called "cantharis" in the vernacular, but it is actually unrelated to Cantharis and is not a member of the Cantharidae at all. It was classified there erroneously until Johan Christian Fabricius corrected its name in his Systema entomologiae in 1775. He reclassified the Spanish fly in the new genus Lytta as Lytta vesicatoria. It belongs to the family Meloidae.
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Cantharisnoun
a beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine
Etymology: [L., a kind of beetle, esp. the Spanish fly, Gr. kanqari`s.]
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Cantharis
Cantharis is a large genus of soldier beetles in the family Cantharidae with narrow and soft elytra. The superficially similar poisonous spanish fly, sometimes called Cantharis vesicatoria or just Cantharis vernacularly, is actually unrelated to Cantharis. It is now named Lytta vesicatioria and belongs to another family, Meloidae. The misapplication of the name Cantharis to the spanish fly was rejected by Johan Christian Fabricius in his Systema entomologiae in 1775, where he reclassified the spanish fly into the new genus Lytta, but continued throughout the 19th century. The Cantharisis was used as a plot device in the first Roald Dahl short story about Uncle Oswald.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of cantharis in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of cantharis in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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