Selenites

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1. A taxonomic genus within the family Coccinellidae – certain Old World ladybird beetles, now Cheilomenes.
2. A taxonomic genus within the family Haplotrematidae – certain land snails, now genus Zophos.

• Species of in Haplotrematidae have feminine ending.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Selenites”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Selenites at Index to Organism Names

snail

• Zophos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Austroselenitinae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

insect

• Cheilomenes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cheilomenes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Selenites

1. plural of Selenite

• eliteness, enlistees