Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
hemelytron . - noun Plural form of
hemelytrum .
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Examples
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Claval suture: Hemiptera; at the base of hemelytra, separating the clavus.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Embolium: Heteroptera; the narrow sclerite extending along the anterior margin of the hemelytra, from base to cuneus or membrane: the lobes on each side of the prothorax: the special enlargement at the base of the primaries which fits into a cavity in which the wing is moved.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Exochorium: Heteroptera; a narrow marginal part of the hemelytra.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Hypoderm - is: the cellular layer which secretes the chitinous cuticula and in this sense = epidermis: specifically applied to the lining membrane of elytral and hemelytra.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Clavus: the club of an antenna lava and clavola: in Heteroptera, the oblong sclerite at the base of the inferior margin of the hemelytra: the knob at the end of the stigmal or radial veins in certain Hymenoptera.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Plaques: the small leathery hemelytra in some Naucorids.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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It presumably arose from a nineteenth-century confusion of the hemelytra of the Hemiptera, with the short tegmina, the covering fore-wings of the Dermaptera, that protect their hind wings when they are not in flight.
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Corium: the elongate middle section of the hemelytra which extends from base to membrane below the embolium.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Membrane - ana: any thin, transparent, flexible body tissue: specifically the wing tissue between the veins: in Heteroptera, the thin membranous tip of the hemelytra.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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CHOEROCYDNUS, n.g. Head broad, in front somewhat truncated; ocelli wanting; antennae five-jointed, second joint longest, third, fourth and fifth, somewhat thickened and nearly equal; beak reaching to base of last pair of legs, if not beyond; third joint the longest; thorax in front notched for reception of head, not so wide as the body; scutellum long and pointed, the line separating it from hemelytra very indistinct; hemelytra without
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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