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Because beetle elytra may be common fossils in Pleistocene deposits, they are often important sources of data on Pleistocene environments.
The body fossil record of arthropods in the Chinle Formation is limited to beetle elytra and a few poorly preserved wings of orthopteran insects.
No detailed description of the insect could be found, but adults are dark brown with conspicuous yellows spots on the elytra.
Other North American species have more distinct spots or bands on the elytra.
Neither fly, and their hard outer wing cases, or elytra, have rows of small round pits in them.
These insects have a hardening of the forewings to form an elytra which protects the hind wings as well as the abdomen.
The elytra are of a miniatous red, striated and punctured, towards the apex rounded and serrated with two very minute approximate dentations at the sutural angles.
The evolution of elytra may have been associated with the habit of living under the bark of trees, where protection for flying wings is required.
The front pair, which may be thickened, leathery, or hard and brittle, are called elytra and usually serve only as protective covers.
At rest, the fragile hind wings are hidden beneath the protective sheath of the hardened forewings, or elytra.
The upper side of the elytra is pale, marked by fine parallel lines and moderately densely clothed with smooth hairs.
When the beetle takes flight, the elytra open to allow the hind wings to propel the beetle through the air.
By using electron microscopy, it was shown that strial pits on the elytra of I. pini carry spores like those of O. ips, yeast and other fungi.
The unique elytra may well be the reason for the beetles success.
Ghost Tiger Beetles are pale in colour, with faint brownish markings on the elytra, making it difficult to see against the sand.
Mesepimera pubescent towards elytra, distinctly less so towards procoxal cavity.
The female characters may be assumed on the head, afterwards on the thorax, and finally on the elytra.
Some examples are very dark in colour, and then the pale neurations on the elytra become almost obsolete.
Coleopteran pests: an insect of the order Coleoptera with four wings, the outer pair of which is modified into stiff elytra to protect the inner pair when at rest.
Among the cerambycids, sound is produced either by rubbing the rear margin of the prothorax over a grooved area on the mesothorax or by rubbing the femurs of the hind legs against the margins of the elytra.
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The pronotum and elytra are often adorned with bright colours or metallic lustre, and marked with stripes or spots.
More, the wings are of the colour of the elytra, and without any white spots.
Shoulders of the elytra of Prionus coriarius, and of many other Coleoptera.
Thus, in the order Coleoptera, the elytra of the male of Rhagium meridianum F. are testaceous, and those of the female black.
Leptura rubra of Linn, with red elytra, is the female of his L. testacea, in which they are testaceous.
Another genus of this family is Melo, with very short elytra, and without wings.
A paratype has elytra fulvous of dilute ferruginous cast with black mottlings.
In apterous beetles the elytra are often connate, or have both sutures as it were soldered together.
When wings are present, the fore-wings are small firm elytra, beneath which the delicate hind-wings are complexly folded.
Bugs should be pinned through the scutellum, as the small triangular piece between the elytra is called.
The lampyrid have the elytra weak and soft, like the insects of the preceding tribe.
The elytra are soldered at the median edge, so that it cannot spread its wings to fly.
The elytra were all gone and the specimen was poorly preserved.
Something like elytra and a scutellum appear to distinguish these insects.
Specimen width represents the maximum width of the elytra, at the level of the humeral callus.
They may be considered under the same heads nearly as elytra.
When they are a process from the disk of the under surface of the elytra.
The conflux of the sutural or inner margins of the two Elytra, where when closed they unite longitudinally.
Elytra in contact or nearly so at median line but not there at all overlapping.
The inflexed accessory margin observable underneath in many Elytra, which covers the sides of the alitrunk and abdomen.
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