When theHemelytra are covered by a scutelliform mesothorax.
Hemelytra with embolium; head horizontal, more or less conical; membrane with one to four veins, rarely wanting.
Sides of the pronotum widely dilated, broader than the breadth of one eye, and densely fringed with backward curved hairs; apical margin of the hemelytra nearly straight, rounded toward the interior or exterior angles.
Hemelytra usually much longer than the abdomen; fourth segment of the antenna longer than the third segment; hind tarsi with claws.
Ocelli none; wings and hemelytra always present in the adults; no discoidal areole in the corium near the apex of the clavus.
Hemelytra with a quadrangular or discoidal areole in the corium near the apex of the clavus (fig.
First two antennal segments very short, last two long, pilose, third thickened at the base; ocelli present, veins of the hemelytra forming cells.
Hemelytra but little longer than the abdomen; fourth segment of the antenna shorter than the third segment; hind tarsi without claws (fig.
Hemelytra without a quadrangular or discoidal areole in the corium near the apex of the clavus.
Apices of thehemelytra entire; the three pairs of legs similar in shape; beak three-segmented; abdomen not keeled or hairy.
Sides of the pronotum neither dilated, nor reflexed, fringed with less dense and nearly straight hairs; hemelytra with the apical margin distinctly rounded.
It presumably arose from a nineteenth-century confusion of the hemelytra of the Hemiptera, with the short tegmina, the covering fore-wings of the Dermaptera, that protect their hind wings when they are not in flight.
Hemelytra of Hemiptera are not really half-wings anyway, but protective fore-wings armoured for only about half their length.
With the exception of the hemelytra and wings, which it has not yet got, all its parts have the form which they are to have later, after the wings are developed.
The hemelytra are horizontal, coriaceous, and of a dirty grey colour.
The coriaceous part of the hemelytra is of a purple tint, but the membranous part is brown.
Its thorax is greyish, the hemelytraof a greenish grey, the membranous wings white.
The body and legs are of a ferruginous colour, the hemelytra a dull brown, and the wings hyaline, or glassy, and slightly blackish.
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