Definition of Subcosta

1. the vein on an insect's wing [n SUBCOSTAE]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subcosta

subcookies
subcool
subcooled
subcooling
subcools
subcoracoid
subcordate
subcoriaceous
subcorneal
subcortex
subcortexes
subcortical
subcortically
subcortices
subcosta (current term)
subcostae
subcostal
subcostals
subcountability
subcountable
subcounties
subcounty
subcover
subcovers
subcranial
subcrescentic
subcritical
subcrust

Literary usage of Subcosta

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Key to the Families of North American Insects: An Introduction to the by Charles Thomas Brues, Axel Leonard Melander (1915)
"subcosta and radius in hind wings closely parallel, or fused beyond the ... Ж, part subcosta and radius strongly divergent from before the end of the cell. ..."

2. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1882)
"The wings are perfectly colof the subcosta, produces some curious results, viz., the basal part of the sub- ment of the venation, especially the almost ..."

3. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1897)
"B. Bristling hair in most parts of the wing extended beyond the shortest line drawn from the end of the subcosta to the end of the axillar nervure ; wanting ..."

4. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1895)
"In the venation of the hind wings notice: (1) That the radial portion of the subcosta is obsolete, thus leaving the outer basal cell and the radial cell ..."

5. The Wilder Quarter-century Book: A Collection of Original Papers Dedicated (1893)
"Here the costa and subcosta are distinct for a considerable distance, but become united into a single vein. It will be observed that the basal portion of ..."

6. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1906)
"No oblique cross-vein beyond end of subcosta ... An oblique cross-vein beyond subcosta; wings not involute. Nemoura. ..."

7. Class Book of Economic Entomology: With Special Reference to the Economic by William Lochhead (1919)
"C. subcosta and Radius of hind wings extending distinctly separate from each other ... D. subcosta and Radius of the hind wings closely approximated but not ..."

8. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1886)
"Sometimes the subcosta ends abruptly, without joining one of the two adjacent veins. Whether this vein is analogous to the ..."

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