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  wing case

  noun

  elytron.
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  wing-case

  noun

  the nontechnical name for elytron

wing case

American  

noun

Entomology.

1. elytron.

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wing-case British  

noun

1. the nontechnical name for elytron

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Etymology

Origin of wing case

First recorded in 1655–65

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The adult mites don't really move around, however; they prefer to hang out under the wing case, says Greg Hurst, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Liverpool who has studied the mites.

From The Verge ● Aug. 8, 2015

The mites cause infertility in female ladybugs, and a whole lot of damage to the beetle's wing case.

From The Verge ● Aug. 8, 2015

The larger beetles are to be pinned through the right wing case, and never in the centre, their legs being nicely arranged in the proper positions, and in some cases the wings may be displayed.

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 Browne, Montagu

With them are the twigs of a conifer, occasionally a fruit or flower, or the wing case of a beetle.

From The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by Hughes, J. Cecil

What a pretty problem is that of a Buprestis' wing-case!

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Many of these, in particular the locusts, are thorough fiddlers, using their long hind-leg as a bow across the edge of the hollow wing-case to produce the familiar chirping sound.

From The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Saint-George, Henry

If we would carve an epitaph of some duration, what could we find better than a Beetle’s wing-case, a Snail’s shell or a Spider’s web? 

From The Life of the Spider by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Sheath, shēth, n. a case for a sword or other long instrument: a scabbard: any thin defensive covering: a membrane covering a stem or branch: the wing-case of an insect.—v.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

In each wing-case the inner edge, near the lower part, has a horny expansion.

From On the Banks of the Amazon by Groome, William H. C.