hemelytra

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of hemelytron.
  hemelytron

  noun

  one of the forewings of a true bug, having a hard, thick basal portion and a thinner, membranous apex.

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hemelytra

An order of Insects in which the anterior wings are sometimes "hemelytra."

From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson

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.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Montagu Browne

Corium: the elongate middle section of the hemelytra which extends from base to membrane below the embolium.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith

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.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith

Membrane -ana: any thin, transparent, flexible body tissue: specifically the wing tissue between the veins: in Heteroptera, the thin membranous tip of the hemelytra.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith

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