Bionomics (Greek: bio = life; nomos = law) has two different meanings: Bionomics (Greek: bio = life; nomos = law) has two different meanings: An example of studies of the first type is in Richard B. Selander's Bionomics, Systematics and Phylogeny of Lytta, a Genus of Blister Beetles (Coleoptera, Meloidae), Illinois Biological Monographs: number 28, 1960.