 Subsequently, in French botanical publications, from Michel Adanson's ' (1763) and until the end of the 19th century, the word ' was used as a French equivalent of the Latin ' (or ').In zoology, the family as a rank intermediate between order and genus was introduced by Pierre André Latreille in his " (1796).He used families (some of them were not named) in some but not in all his orders of "insects" (which then included all arthropods).