asterisk

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Female velvet ants are wingless wasps that range in size from small, as is this quarter-inch Dasymutilla asteria, to huge, nearly one-inch “cow killers.”

From National Geographic

M. cynthia and M. asteria, are peculiar to the Alps, the latter being only found at considerable elevations.

From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis

The typical asteria is the star-sapphire, generally a bluish-grey corundum, milky or opalescent, with a star of six rays.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

It is formed principally of coral, on the surface of which we found the gray trepang; a small Chama gigas, a cypraea, a pretty azure-coloured species of asteria, and a few bivalve shells.

From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by King, Phillip Parker

It was the asteria, or star sapphire, which was alone considered worthy to light even the outer courts of the king over a country so rich in gems as this.

From Harper's Young People, January 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various