hindwing

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English

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Etymology

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From hind +‎ wing.

Noun

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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[1], →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.