CALYPTER

alula, calypter

(noun) scalelike structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

calypter (plural calypters)

(biology, entomology) Either of two posterior wing lobes that appear in dipteran flies of the subsection Calyptrata, and that cover the halteres.

Source: Wiktionary



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