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名詞

hindwing (plural hindwings)

1. Alternative spelling of hind wing
   • 1890, George Frederick Leycester Marshall, Lionel de Nicéville, The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon:

     the Amblypodia group presents a more or less elongated form of hindwing with some variety in the shape and caudation ;

   • 2001, Oliver Schäffler et al, Butterflies of the World: Papilionidae. - 6:

     the hindwings are a little narrower and longer the light maculation of the upperside of the forewing is markedly reduced and the cellspot only faintly suggested.

   • 2015 October 21, “Familial Clarification of Saucrosmylidae stat. nov. and New Saucrosmylids from Daohugou, China (Insecta, Neuroptera)”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     As an extinct clade, many species of the saucrosmylids were erected just based on a single fore- or hindwing, and it should be realized that providing more stable characters is necessary when describing new lacewing taxa just based on an isolated hindwing.

名詞

hind wing (plural hind wings)

1. (entomology, in an insect with two pairs of wings) Either member of the pair of wings closer to the tail.

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “wing closer to the tail”): fore wing

参考

• Insect wing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia