Lexicographical Neighbors of Tegmina
Literary usage of Tegmina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1888)
"The closely-folded wings can be seen through the transparent tegmina. The wings
vary greatly in length ; sometimes they are longer than the tegmina, ..."
2. Psyche by Cambridge Entomological Club (1893)
"Relatively slenderer forms, the tegmina relatively slenderer ; last, forked branch
of the discoidal vein of the hind wings usually arising about three ..."
3. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1899)
"A. Without trace of tegmina or wings ; dark olive-green above, ... Body and
tegmina brown, conspicuously varied with ashy and yellow stripes and fuscous ..."
4. The Entomologist's Text Book: An Introduction to the Natural History by John Obadiah Westwood (1838)
"(b) The tegmina.—This term was proposed by Illiger to designate that variation
of wings, in which the substance is intermediate between the true membranous ..."
5. Report of Progress for by Geological Survey of Canada (1879)
"A pair of tegmina, in which most of the venation can be made out, with a crushed
body and crumpled wings (No. 75), represent a species of ..."
6. Annual Report (1873)
"tegmina extending beyond the tip of the abdomen, the costal area slightly ...
tegmina dotted rather profusely, excepting at the extreme tip, with small, ..."
7. A Synonymic Catalogue of Homoptera by William Lucas Distant (1906)
"tegmina with eight apical areas. A. Wings with six apical areas. a. ... tegmina less
than three times longer than margin of pronotum. broad. d. ..."
8. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1916)
"D. tegmina much reduced. E. tegmina represented by subquadrate pads with sutural
margins ... tegmina little reduced, extending beyond apex of abdomen. ..."
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