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elytra

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These firm fore-wings, or elytra (fig. [Please select]

Humeral carina: in Coleoptera, an elevated ridge or keel on the outer anterior angle of elytra. [Please select]

Sculpture: the markings or pattern of impression or elevation on an elytra or other body surface. [Please select]

Scutellar angle: of elytra is next to the scutel when wing is expanded. [Please select]

Umbone: an embossed, elevated knob situated on humeral angle of elytra. [Please select]

Winglets: small, concavo-convex scales, generally fringed at tip, under the base of the elytra in Dytiscidae. [Please select]

What remains is a kind of golden shell, formed of the two conjoined elytra. [Please select]

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