elytra in English
A typical male will clasp the lateral edges of the female's elytra with his prothoracic and mesothoracic legs, while his metathoracic legs are extended behind to serve as stabilizers when they drag on the substrate.
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1. Description All Beetles have hard outer wing cases, known as elytra, and a hard upper body, called a carapace
2. Cowpea Curculio, Chalcodermus Aeneus Boheman (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae) 2 The thorax and elytra are marked with coarse punctures
3. Anoplura Sucking lice Piercing-sucking, stylet sac absent Blattaria Cockroaches Chewing Variable Coleoptera Beetles Chewing 2 pair (1st pair = elytra) Collembola Springtails Chewing Apterous Dermaptera Earwigs Chewing 2 pair, front pair elytra, second membranous Diplura Diplurans Chewing lacking Diptera Flies Piercing-sucking, or sponging 1
4. Attingent: Touching or coming in contact with each other, as the elytra of a beetle or the tegmina of a grasshopper.
5. Typically 16 to 33 mm (0.6 to 1.3 in) in length, L. magister has a striking red head, legs and prothorax, with black elytra.
6. Elytra narrower than pronotum at base, as wide as pronotum at apical 1/3; depressed between humeri and scutellum; lateral margins Bisinuate; apices separately rounded.
7. Caves vines should not be Climbable because Climbable objects can interrupt elytra flight which would get annoying it caves since that is one of the big things you can do in caves
8. Adult larder Beetles are generally 1/3 to 3/8 of an inch long and are dark brown with a broad, pale yellow spotted band across the upper portion of the elytra
9. American Burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) Family: Silphidae USFWS American Burying Beetle Species Profile page (ECOS) Description: The American Burying beetle is a large black insect with two distinct orange bands on each elytra (wing covers)
10. Coleopterans are characterized by the modification of the first pair of wings into rigid wing casings (elytra) that cover and protect the second, or flying, pair of wings and the soft upper side of the abdomen.
11. Coleopterans are characterized by the modification of the first pair of wings into rigid wing casings (elytra) that cover and protect the second, or flying, pair of wings and the soft upper side of the abdomen.
12. Pronotum: longer than wide, widest posteriorly, often narrowed anteriorly, narrower than elytra at humeri; convex; anterior margin straight, lateral margin straight, arcuate, sinuate or Bisinuate, posterior margin Bisinuate; punctation usually dense; a slender, usually slightly elevated strip lacking coarse punctures present in front of scutellum.
13. Bisinuate-with two incisions Carinate-keeled or having raised lines Convex-curved or rounded outward Elytra-the forewings of beetles Frons-the upper anterior portion of the head capsule, usually a distinct sclerite (any plate on the body wall) between the epicranium (upper part of the head) and clypeus (part of head below the frons)
14. Ips grandicollis adults are dark red-brown to almost black and about 3-5 mm in body length; sometimes adult is shining and glabrous, dull and coarsely granulate, densely pubescent or covered with scales; Antennae geniculate, funicle five-segmented, with abrupt three-segmented club; subcircular to oval, strongly flattened, with sutures strongly to moderately Bisinuate; Elytra terminate in a
15. [From Hatch 1938] "Length 2 mm.; piceous, the antennae, elytra, tibiae and tarsi paler; pronotum quadrate, about five-sixths as broad as long, sides Bisinuate, anterior angles prominent and acute, posterior angles slightly acute; disc of pronotum uniformly alutaceous, set with fine hairs, with an elevated, slightly sinuate carina extending from base to apex on either side at a distance from