hemerobion

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

hēmĕrŏbĭon, ĭi, n., = ἡμερόβιον,

an insect that lives but a day , an ephemeron : erumpit volucre quadrupes, nec ultra unum diem vivit, unde hemerobion vocatur, Plin. 11, 36, 43, § 120.