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They are characterized by a front pair of hard, opaque, waterproof wings called elytra, ...

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Newspaper article from: Science Letter ...geometric structures and morphologies of the elytra of beetles and ascertained its coupling...monitor the opening and closing behaviour of elytra in beetles and to determine the motion...to measure the coupling forces between elytra. The results show that elytra open and...
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Newspaper article from: Telecommunications Weekly ...to the mesosternum; 4) the elytra fused along the suture; 5) the elytron and elytral epipleuron extending...scutellum not visible with the elytra closed; 4) prosternum in...same length; 6) apices of elytra evenly rounded; 7) metepisternum...
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Magazine article from: Journal of the Idaho Academy of Science ...unique shape of the marginal squamules of the elytra. Uniformly colored dark brown, elytra occasionally slightly lighter. Head. - Almost...with only a few, short, erect squamules. Elytra. - About four times as long as prothorax...
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Newspaper article from: Science Letter ...dichotomous behaviours by presenting a single elytron from a breeding and a non-breeding beetle...additional experiment, females tolerated the elytra of non-breeding beetles if we had first...extract from a breeding beetle to these elytra," wrote S. Steiger and colleagues...
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Magazine article from: Florida Entomologist ...Integument of head usually black, sometimes testaceous; pronotum, elytra, and pygidium black, sometimes testaceous (among specimens...elytral interstices with dark brown spots (Fig. 1); apices of elytra sometimes dark brown (Fig. 3); pygidium (Fig. 3) usually...
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