Tegmina
Preparation of an Asiatic flower mantis , with large eye-spots on the tegmina
Tegmina ( Sg. Tegmen o. Tegmentum, lat. Ceiling hood of tegere cover) are wholly or partly thickened ( chitinisierten ), amplified ( sclerotic ) and pigmented covering wings of insects , which always have a distinct veins show. This vein stems from the trachea and gives the wings additional stability.
Tegmina can be found among other things in phasmatodea, cockroaches (Blattodea), short horror ( Caelifera) and long- antennae horror (Ensifera).
They are to be distinguished from the more strongly sclerotized and always veinless elytra , a winged type that can be found among other things in beetles (Coleoptera).
For function, shape, size and position in flight, see the wing .
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