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Definition of Hemelytron
1. n. One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.
Definition of Hemelytron
1. Noun. (anatomy) An insect's forewing with both membranous and hardened portions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hemelytron
1. [n -TRA]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemelytron
Literary usage of Hemelytron
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entomologist's Text Book: An Introduction to the Natural History by John Obadiah Westwood (1838)
"On examining an hemelytron, the three areas of which wings and tegmina are ...
When at rest, the apical membrane of one hemelytron folds upon that of the ..."
2. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1906)
"The fore wing, or hemelytron, has on the under surface at the posterior edge, in
the acute angle of the anal cell or clavus, a prominence and this ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1845)
"... and from the end of the pale part there is an oblique broad bar abruptly broken
off before reaching the middle of the hemelytron; between the end of the ..."
4. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1915)
"Divergent, distant at base, fig. n. 3. Convergent or parallel, distant at base,
fig. 12. THE WINGS. The hemelytron, fig. 4, consists of the clavus, corium, ..."
5. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1827)
"projection of the hemelytron which lies above it; and it is by rubbing the one
over the other that the loud or shrill sound of most ..."
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