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  2. Pleurocybella porrigens - Wikipedia

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    Pleurocybella porrigens is a species of fungus in the family Phyllotopsidaceae.The species is widespread in temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere. [2] P. porrigens, known as the angel wing, is a white-rot wood-decay fungus on conifer wood, particularly hemlock (genus Tsuga). [3]

  3. Tegmen - Wikipedia

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    Earwig wing anatomy. One tegmen opened, the other removed to show wing folding mechanism. The term tegmen refers to a miscellaneous and arbitrary group of organs in various orders of insects; they certainly are homologous in the sense that they all are derived from insect forewings, but in other senses they are analogous; for example, the evolutionary development of the short elytra of the ...

  4. Insect wing - Wikipedia

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    The elytra are connected to the pterathorax; being called as such because it is where the wings are connected (pteron meaning "wing" in Greek). The elytra are not used for flight, but tend to cover the hind part of the body and protect the second pair of wings (alae). The elytra must be raised in order to move the hind flight wings.

  5. Angel wing - Wikipedia

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    A duck with angel wing A Muscovy duck with angel wing. Angel wing, also known as airplane wing, [1] slipped wing, crooked wing, and drooped wing, [citation needed] is a syndrome that affects primarily aquatic birds, such as geese and ducks, in which the last joint of the wing is twisted with the wing feathers pointing out laterally, instead of lying against the body.

  6. Elytron - Wikipedia

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    The elytra of this cockchafer beetle are readily distinguished from the transparent hindwings.. An elytron (/ ˈ ɛ l ɪ t r ɒ n /; from Ancient Greek ἔλυτρον (élutron) 'sheath, cover'; pl.: elytra, / ˈ ɛ l ɪ t r ə /) [1] [2] is a modified, hardened forewing of beetles (Coleoptera), though a few of the true bugs such as the family Schizopteridae are extremely similar; in true ...

  7. False angelwing - Wikipedia

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    Petricolaria pholadiformis closely resembles the angel wing (Cyrtopleura costata), the main distinguishing feature being that it lacks the apophyses, the spoon-shaped wings located near the beak, of the real angel wing. It grows to about 5 centimetres (2.0 in) long and is usually white.

  8. Cyrtopleura costata - Wikipedia

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    Cyrtopleura costata, or the angel wing clam, is a bivalve mollusc in the family Pholadidae.It is found in shallow parts of the northwest Atlantic and also in the North Sea of Scotland coastline and west coast of the Adriatic Sea by a remote area in the Marche region in central Italy, living in the seabed, where it digs its burrows on a very slow revolving movement for years through soft sand ...

  9. List of Angelic Layer characters - Wikipedia

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    Angel Entry Phrase: "Angel Wings! Please guide me and Hikaru!" Voiced by: Atsuko Enomoto (Japanese); Jessica Boone (English) Misaki Suzuhara (鈴原 みさき, Suzuhara Misaki) is a timid, sweet-tempered, and kind 12-year-old girl who has just moved to Tokyo to live with her aunt.