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надкрылья
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èlitre

Paired dorsal scale in annelids.

надкрылья
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élitro
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elitro

Either of the horny front wings in beetles and some other insects which cover and protect the functional hind wings.

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The mutation in vest resulted in a clear phenotype in the CPBs, which developed to adulthood with no hindwing and elytron formed.
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