Euplexoptera: alternatives and connections

A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.

Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnaen order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, cent…

A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.

An order of mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that the…

An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which…

An insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig.

An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.

An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctori…

insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures a…

The earwig.

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either of the horny front wings in beetles and some other insects which cover and protect the functional hind wings

One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the…

A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when…

The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig.

A genus of insects including the earwigs. See Earwig, 1.

One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.