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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

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 J. Cecil Hughes

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 Montagu Browne

A fine transparent cushion limits the free edge of the embryo wing and the embryo wing-case.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall

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 D. A. Compton

We have had opportunities of showing that the Cricket, the Grasshopper and many others draw their bow, which is on the right wing-case, over the sounding apparatus, which is on the left wing-case. 

From The Life of the Spider by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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 Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

In each wing-case the under edge of the wing itself has a horny lobe.

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