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See also: hind wing
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]hindwing (plural hindwings)
- 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[1], :
- 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.