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 ...

The resulting photographs were comparable to those of the scanning electron microscope at that magnification. Elytra of hundreds of species, belonging to various families of Coleoptera were examined.

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

Beetles are classified in the order Coleoptera (sheath-wing). The front pair of wings is hardened into cases (called elytra) that can fold down to sheathe the other pair of wings and much of the ...

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 ...