This is an image of the pattern on the elytron (hardened forewing) of a reticulated beetle (Tenomerga cinerea). You can see several of the pits that cover the elytra of this beetle (1), giving it its ...

When flying beetles close their hardened forewings (elytra) that protect the underlying flight wings, they have the elytra hitched on one pair of the jigsaw-shaped structures. Although the ...

Like all beetles, they have 6 legs, and the front wings are hardened into armored plates called elytra that at least ...

Like many other water beetle species, male whirlygigs have forelegs with terminal segments (tarsi) that are adapted to attach to a female’s slippery elytra during mating. The mid and hind legs are ...

DESCRIPTION: At about one to 1.5 inches in length, the American burying beetle is the largest species of its genus in North America. Its body is shiny black, with hardened protective wing covers ...

The study revealed that beetles use elastic energy and flapping forces to passively deploy hindwings for flight and retract them using the elytra (modified, hardened forewing of beetles ...