Significados de elytra en inglés

Among their findings, they discovered that the beetle's fused elytra were interlocked.

The elytra of the male are much longer than the abdomen.

There are a few short hairs at the rounded tip of the elytra.

Our insect bears a remarkable similarity to a Surinam Buprestis, with serrated elytra.

What remains is a kind of golden shell, formed of the two conjoined elytra.

And it's the elytra that have helped make the beetles so ridiculously successful and diverse.

This insect is about four lines long, and entirely black, except the upper half of the elytra.

Twice now he'd changed the leaves, only to find a seething mass of tiny black elytra underneath.

Photograph: Nature The elytra were also found to be layered and rich in proteins -features that may boost toughness.

While other beetles have interlocking elytra, the diabolical ironclad had a greater number of interlocking sections, resembling connected jigsaw-puzzle pieces.

Let us return to the wings and elytra, which have made no apparent progress since their emergence from their sheaths.

Donovan's B. cancellata is surely a distinct species, the serrated margins of the elytra and other characters would separate it.

Like some other species of flightless beetle, its wing covers, known as elytra, are not only hardened, but fused together.

General surface of thorax and elytra very smooth, shining, the dilated parts of thorax and elytra with the surface somewhat undulated.

Don't you see the distinguishing mark of the coleoptera, those two elytra, or wing-covers, which meet in the median dorsal line?

The head, thorax, and legs are shining black; the elytra, or wing-covers, are olive-green, dotted with black spots, and are much wrinkled.