macropterous


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macropterous

having large wings, as in some castes of termites and ants.
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Of the 23 carabid beetle species identified in the study, only four species (Bembidion fujiyamai, Diplous depressus, Platynus sp., and Harpalus fuliginosus) were macropterous, and the remaining 19 species were brachypterous or apterous (Table 1).
Assemblage Characteristics and Habitat Specificity of Carabid Beetles in a Japanese Alpine-Subalpine Zone
21.V.-3.VI.2003, 1 male paratype, 2 female paratypes (macropterous), 1 female paratype (brachypterous).
Lachesillidae (Psocodea: 'Psocoptera': psocomorpha) from rancho Santa Elena, Huasca de Ocampo, Hidalgo, Mexico, with description of a Lachesilla in species group corona
It was hypothesized that macropterous individuals exhibit higher mobility and dispersal range than brachypterous individuals.
Contrasting patterns of macroptery in Roesel's bush cricket Metrioptera roeselii (Orthoptera, Ensifera)
Additional Material Examined: MADAGASCAR: Diego Suarez Prov.: 3 macropterous females, stream 68 km S.
The first record of Hydrometra bifurcata (Heteroptera: Hydrometridae) from the island of Reunion, with distributional notes on other Hydrometra species from Madagascar
Naturally, this species is in the limigenus group (Poisson 1949), which is characterized as being macropterous with alary dimorphism rare, and with the posterolateral angles of the pronotum rounded.
Naucoridae Leach, 1815 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Tanzania
This species occurs in both macropterous and brachypterous forms.
Review of the Genus Hieroglyphus Krauss 1877 (Hemiacridinae: Acrididae: Orthoptera) with Description of One New Species From Pakistan
The team correctly spelled slumgullion (a meat stew), macropterous (having long wings or fins) and violaceous (bluish-purple) without missing a beat to win the sixth annual Boys & Girls Club Adult Spelling Bee at the college's Weston Auditorium last night
Professors deserve doctorates in spelling, too; Fitchburg State College team takes the crown in adult bee
First, there are species with highly specific nitrogen requirements which are very mobile (macropterous) and actively track specific nutritional requirements.
FEEDING-INDUCED CHANGES IN PLANT QUALITY MEDIATE INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION BETWEEN SAP-FEEDING HERBIVORES
A particular type of dimorphism within the Insecta is that of wing dimorphism in which one morph (macropterous) possess a functional flight apparatus and the other (micropterous) is flightless.
The genetic basis of the trade-off between calling and wing morph in males of the cricket Gryllus firmus
Because the eggs used in this experiment were taken from a largely macropterous population in New Jersey and a primarily brachypterous population in Florida, it could be argued that maternal effects might contribute to any observed differences in wing form between populations.
Habitat persistence underlies intraspecific variation in the dispersal strategies of planthoppers
All southern African Stenopelmatidae are obligatorily apterous, while Gryllacrididae can be either macropterous or apterous, depending on the species.
Gryllacrididae (Orthoptera: Ensifera) in southern Africa
Macropterous, wings broad and elongate, well exceeding abdomen, held steeply tectiform (almost parallel to body) in repose.
A new tribe of Tropiduchidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) with revision of the genus Buca and description of asymmetric hind leg spinulation
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