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Change log entry 79151
Processed by: richwarm (2023-08-30 00:42:58 UTC)
Comment: << review queue entry 74244 - submitted by 'kbaiko' >>
螬 - only used in 蛴螬
- https://www.zdic.net/hans/%E8%9E%AC
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%9E%AC#Chinese
I don't know what "mimela lucidula" is supposed to be. When I searched it I just got references to 螬

蛴螬
- https://www.zdic.net/hans/%E8%9B%B4%E8%9E%AC
>金龟子的幼虫
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%A0%90%E8%9E%AC#Chinese

蝤 - only used in 蝤蛴
- https://www.zdic.net/hans/%E8%9D%A4
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%9D%A4#Chinese

蝤蛴
- https://www.zdic.net/hans/%E8%9D%A4%E8%9B%B4
> 天牛的幼虫

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Editor: Mimela is a genus of beetles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimela

... and Mimela lucidula is one of the species in that genus. As the following page indicates, Mimela lucidula is a synonym of Mimela splendens
https://www.gbif.org/species/180466309

... which has a Wikipedia page in several languages, including Japanese (but not English.)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%82%AC%E3%83%8D%E3%83%A0%E3%82%B7
https://www.gbif.org/species/5991287

螬 may originally have meant "lava of Mimela lucidula [splendens]", but for practical purposes, it can be defined as a bound form that occurs only in 蠐螬, as you propose.

The use of "the" in the phrase "larva of the scarab beetle" suggests that "scarab beetle" is a species. In fact, it's a family of many different species. Same story with "the longhorn beetle" — it's not a single species.

Wp ~ "The longhorn beetles ... are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described."

Dictionaries describe 蝤蛴 as "literary" or "archaic".
Diff:
- 蠐 蛴 [qi2] /larva/maggot/
+ 蠐 蛴 [qi2] /used in 蠐螬|蛴螬[qi2 cao2]/used in 蝤蠐|蝤蛴[qiu2 qi2]/
 
- 螬 螬 [cao2] /larva of Mimela lucidula/
+ 螬 螬 [cao2] /used in 蠐螬|蛴螬[qi2 cao2]/
 
- 蠐螬 蛴螬 [qi2 cao2] /grub/CL:條|条[tiao2]/
# + 蠐螬 蛴螬 [qi2 cao2] /larva of the scarab beetle/CL:條|条[tiao2]/
 
- 蝤 蝤 [qiu2] /larva/grub/
+ 蝤 蝤 [qiu2] /used in 蝤蠐|蝤蛴[qiu2 qi2]/
 
# + 蝤蠐 蝤蛴 [qiu2 qi2] /larva of the longhorn beetle/
#
+ 蠐螬 蛴螬 [qi2 cao2] /scarab beetle lava; grub/CL:條|条[tiao2]/
+ 蝤蠐 蝤蛴 [qiu2 qi2] /(literary) longhorn beetle lava/
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