The elytra are to the delicate wings of some insects what the thick anterior margins are to stronger wings.
These insects are generally of soft consistency, and their elytra very flexible.
The elytra and the wings are hyaline, or glassy, and their veins alternately yellow and brown.
Dynastes Hercules, a great insect of a fine ebony black, with its elytra of an olive grey, is not rare in the Antilles.
The elytra are of a greenish yellow, sprinkled with black; the wings, of the same colour, have at the extremity a large spot resembling an eye, which is surrounded by a brown circle very broad in front.
The elytra are joined together, and they have no wings.
This insect is of a beautiful violet blue, having the antennae and the legs black, and the elytra of a splendid golden green, with longitudinal streaks.
In some species their green or yellowish elytra look so exactly like the leaves of trees that one can hardly help taking them for such.
But the elytra of the Orthoptera are less solid and less complete than those of the Coleoptera.
The elytra of the male are smooth; those of the female are fluted.
And, lastly, in the Crickets the thighs and elytra are provided with very hard ridges.
The Anomala vitis is an insect of about half an inch long, of a beautiful green, bordered by yellow, with the elytra deeply furrowed.
The Trichiadae have the elytra shorter, the abdomen bigger, and the legs more slender.
The Histers are small insects, to be recognised by their body being almost round, smooth, and shining, with the elytra marked with striae, and their mandibles pretty well developed.
The elytraare straw-coloured and spotted with brown.
Children, seduced by the richness of the elytra of the Carabi, amuse themselves in catching these vigilant protectors of our farms, without knowing the bad effect of what they are doing.
The elytra are soldered at the median edge, so that it cannot spread its wings to fly.
One here seeselytra and claws piled up; they are the hard and horny parts which he has not been able to eat.
Elytra dark red-brown, with a cream-coloured line running longitudinally from the thorax towards the apex, and having a small cream-coloured margin.
Elytra black and margined, semi-coriaceous, and crossing over one another, having a red streak from the shoulders to the apex.
Elytra black, with a yellow zigzag streak running along the sides, all the black part being full of small punctures.
Elytra having twelve spots of the same colour, the apices terminating in two sharp points.
Elytra the same colour with the thorax, with patches of lighter brown on them.
Elytra deeply margined on their sides and suture; faintly ribbed, each having five placed longitudinally, the surface very rough.
Elytra orange, with a broad black patch crossing them in the middle, where are two lines in the form of a cross.
The air is taken in between the elytra and the body, and owing to the convexity of the former, a supply can be retained sufficient to last the insect some twenty or thirty minutes.
It undergoes its transformation into the pupa within the weevil burrows, when the limbs of the perfect insect can be seen folded down the breast, the wings and elytra being much smaller than in the beetle.
In general appearance it reminds one of a miniature specimen of the last species, but is more elongate in form; the green thorax and elytra are also much brighter.
The beetles may be often observed with the extremity of their elytra protruded above the surface, renewing their supplies of air.
The sexes are widely different, the elytra of the male being furnished with the characteristic coronet of spines, which is entirely wanting in the female.
General surface of thorax and elytravery smooth, shining, the dilated parts of thorax and elytra with the surface somewhat undulated.
Each of the elytra has a clear space like a tympanum; the upper part of the prothorax is smooth, the sides and posterior part are very slightly bent back, the last segment of abdomen notched at the end.
The elytra are very distinctly sinuated towards the extremity, and the three elevated ribs are smooth and of a coppery bronze colour, with the intervening spaces smooth (at least not granulated as in the C.
Elytra yellow with a large squarish spot common to both, outwardly bounded by a dark line, except in front where the yellow of the general surface runs into the square.
The ground of the spot is red, with a yellow line near the suture on each side; elytra at the base narrowly edged with black.
Elytra with many punctures arranged indistinctly in lines, brownish yellow, the suture, tip and extreme edge of each elytron narrowly margined with brown; scutellum yellowish, black at the base and tip.
Elytra finely chagrined, with faint indications of two or three longitudinal lines on each.
Elytra yellowish red, tip and a large oblong spot on each black, the spot not reaching either margin of the elytron; under side of abdomen covered with silky hairs.
Elytra with four double rows of impressed punctures, united at the end.
Though the margin of elytra is most commonly intire, yet in some beetles, as Gymnopleurus Illig.
Thus, in the order Coleoptera, the elytra of the male of Rhagium meridianum F.
The same circumstance distinguishes the female cockroach (Blatta) and is more universally prevalent in that genus than in Lampyris, in which a large number of females have both elytra and wings.
In apterous beetles the elytra are often connate, or have both sutures as it were soldered together.
In the Coleoptera the scutellum is usually the visible, mostly triangular, piece that intervenes between the elytra at their base[1661], and which terminates the dorsolum.
In some elytra of the larger Dynastidae, towards the sides the exterior layer is separated from the rest by a kind of cellular substance.
In another coleopterous species, the wings and elytra are placed under the hind-legs.
Besides the appendages here mentioned, the elytra exhibit a variety of tubercles and other elevations of various form and size, which it would be endless to particularize.
In some,--as the Dynastidae and those beetles whose elytra are connate, or as it were soldered together, the former is scarcely more than membrane.
In the female of the common glow-worm (Lampyris noctiluca) not the slightest vestige of elytra or wings is visible, and it resembles a larva rather than a perfect insect; yet its mate is a true beetle furnished with both.
The elytra are curiously marked with red, black, and gray.
We have already spoken of its elytra and its wings; but we now say a word upon the two extremities of its body.
The elytra and the wings, inconspicuous as they are, produced so great an impression on the early naturalists, that they made them the principal characteristics of an entire order of insects.
This name has been given to the hard, insoluble matter forming the shells and elytra of insects.
It is obtained by boiling the elytra of the cockchafer with water, alcohol, ether, acetic acid, and alkalies.
Beak short, reaching to about the anterior coxae; scutellum acuminate at the apex; lateral margin of the elytra but little reflexed, apical margin more or less rounded; intermediate and posterior coxae very remote.
European Water-beetles, of the genus Dytiscus, have females of two forms, the most common having the elytra deeply sulcate, the rarer smooth as in the males.
I had on previous visits to the peak noticed the elytra of many beetles lying on the bare top.
In some of the Nicaraguan species the body is lengthened, and the thorax and elytra coloured, so as to resemble wasps and flies.
Amongst the elytra were those of beetles that I had never taken, and as they were night-roaming species, I determined to go up some evening and wait until dark, with a lanthorn, to see if I could take any of them.
Elytra in contact or nearly so at median line but not there at all overlapping.
Color of venter and parapodia grey; elytra at present grey over a fulvous ground.
The elytra in general are unusually elongate in an oblique direction, the long axis running from the outer end cephalomesad; the outline subelliptic, the caudomesal edge broadly convex, the opposite one a little incurved at middle.
The elytra are greyish with dusky or brownish mottlings.
A paratype has elytra fulvous of dilute ferruginous cast with black mottlings.
The elytra have the surface wholly smooth and the edges are also not fringed.
As preserved, the type has no definite color markings; color greyish, the elytra of weak fulvous cast.
The elytraare long, subelliptic in outline, and are arranged either with axis nearly longitudinal or very oblique, the most anterior elytra, however, subcircular.
The elytra were all gone and the specimen was poorly preserved.
The color was recorded as a "light, unsaturated yellow, elytra darker yellow, body irridescent below.
After several ineffectual trials the animal came out, cut off its elytra and some of its legs, and thus reduced in compass drew in its prey without difficulty[815].
Having never seen a female of that extraordinary animal the mole-cricket (Gryllotalpa vulgaris), I cannot say what difference obtains in the reticulation of the elytra of the two sexes.
The vibrations caused by the friction of the thighs and elytra striking upon this drum, are reverberated by it, and so intenseness is given to the sound.
When the male sings, he elevates the elytra so as to form an acute angle with the body, and then rubs them against each other by a horizontal and very brisk motion[650].
The elytra of both sexes are divided longitudinally into two portions; a vertical or lateral one, which covers the sides; and a horizontal or dorsal one, which covers the back.
For, the thorax and elytra of these insects being reticulated, with the little areas or meshes of the net-work transparent, this circumstance gives them exactly the appearance of small fragments of skeletons of leaves.
It has been ascertained that the spurious elytra of these insects are serviceable in their flight.
The elytra also of these have no elevation at their base.
The cricket tribe are a very noisy race, and their chirping is caused by the friction of the bases of their elytraagainst each other.
Latreille informs me that a friend of his, who saw one living which was brought from China to the Isle of France in wood, found that the ocelli in the elytra of Buprestis ocellata were luminous.
Dytiscus, dimorphism of females of; grooved elytra of the female.
It is a much more unusual circumstance that the females of some water-beetles (Dytiscus) have their elytra deeply grooved, and in Acilius sulcatus thickly set with hairs, as an aid to the male.
The females of some other water-beetles (Hydroporus) have their elytrapunctured for the same purpose.
The elytra are beautifully tinted with rich green and bronze, and the divisions of the head and thorax separated from the abdomen by sharp, whitish lines.
The elytra are turned in at the sides, and the surface of each is marked with eleven striae or longitudinal lines, composed of minute punctures.
The hydrous piceus is here represented of the natural size; the ground colour is black, with a shade of bronze, and the margins of the elytra are tinged with green and purple.
Coadunate: joined together at base; two or more joined together; said of elytra when permanently united at the suture.
Fastigiate: flat-topped and of equal height: also applied to elytra that extend a little beyond the abdomen.
Dimidiate -us: halved; extending half way around; applied to elytra when they cover only half the abdomen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elytra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
