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- noun Plural form of
hindwing .
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Examples
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The orange color on the hindwings is visible thru the gap between the forewings.
Train station lepidopteran: Apantesis AYDIN 2007
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But in the Andes they have a broad splash of yellow across their hindwings and solid patches of orange on their forewings.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Its large forewings are glossy black and hindwings bright yellow with a black margin making it 'hard to miss' when in flight.
Kottu kottu 2010
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Another large and strong-flying butterfly of rich colours, having distinctive eye-spots, like those on a peacock's tail feathers, on the tips of its forewings and hindwings, which have evolved to startle or confuse predators. stinging nettles.
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BugGuide hasn't much information on the species, and indicates of the genus: "small geometers with banded brown forewings and plain whitish hindwings.
What's That Bug? 2009
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