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‖ hemi-elytrum Zool.|hɛmɪˈɛlɪtrəm|
Pl. -a. Also erron. hemelytrum.
[mod.L., f. Gr. ἡµι- hemi- + ἔλυτρον elytrum, sheath.]
The fore wing of an insect, which is coriaceous at the base and membranous at the end, as in the Hemiptera and Heteroptera.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1828) IV. xlvii. 387 Wings covered by Hemelytra or Tegmina. 1870Nicholson Zool. 210 In some of the Hemiptera..the apices [of the anterior wings] remain membranous, and to these the term ‘hemelytra’ is applied. 1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 500 The fore wings may be converted into wing covers..as in the hemi-elytra of Dermaptera and elytra of Coleoptera.
Hence hemi-ˈelytral a., pertaining to or of the nature of a hemielytrum. |