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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 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 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

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

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

Figure 14, e, shows the left wing-case enlarged, and Figure 15, e, an enlarged leg of the latter.

From The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. by Compton, D. A.

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

The instrument by which it produces its music is contrived out of the ordinary nervures of the wing-case.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Certainly this resembles a rough sketch of the future wing-case; but how different from the mature structure!

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard

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