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Among their findings, they discovered that the beetle's fused elytra were interlocked.
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The elytra of the male are much longer than the abdomen.
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There are a few short hairs at the rounded tip of the elytra.
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Our insect bears a remarkable similarity to a Surinam Buprestis, with serrated elytra.
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What remains is a kind of golden shell, formed of the two conjoined elytra.
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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.