"pierine" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "Any hope that the pierines would help to define “the level at which r-K phenomena should be sought has been dashed: apparently species groups (or subgenera, or splitters' genera) are r- or K-selected in the holarctic, whereas in Tatochila the same amount of differentiation is found among populations in a complex in which the process of speciation has not yet been completed.",
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          "ref": "1898, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, volume 26, Linnean Society of London, page 597",
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