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What is a calypter?

What is a calypter? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) Either of two posterior wing lobes that appear in dipteran flies of the subsection Calyptrata, and that cover the halteres.
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Wing hyaline, upper calypter creamy white, lower one light brown.
Wings clear with light brown veins, calypter white in color.
Calypter yellowish with dense brownish microtrichae, margin with thin, sparse long setulae.
Lower calypter the same size as and thus distinctly projecting behind upper calypter in lateral view.

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