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- noun Plural form of
nervure .
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Examples
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Head densely clothed with long whitish hairs; thorax and abdomen with black hairs; wings hyaline, the nervures and nervules brown, with a few black scales: base of the anterior and abdominal fold of the posterior more or less covered with black hairs; antennae and legs fuscous brown.
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Thorax: the disk very closely punctured, the metathorax rugose; the sides and the legs with a fine glittering sericeous pile, the wings subhyaline, their apical margins fuscous, the nervures fuscous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Thorax: the prothorax smooth and shining; the meso - and metathorax above transversely striated, the scutellum longitudinally so; the legs ferruginous, with their coxæ black; a spot of silvery-white pubescence on each side of the metathorax at its base, and two at its apex close to the insertion of the petiole; the wings fulvo-hyaline with the nervures ferruginous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Black; the thorax, anterior and intermediate legs, the articulations of the posterior pair, and the base of the abdomen ferruginous, entirely smooth and shining; the wings subhyaline, the nervures fusco-ferruginous, an irregular fuscous stain at the base of the first submarginal cell, extending beyond it.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Thorax: a black stripe on each side of the mesothorax over the tegulæ; the wings subhyaline, the nervures ferruginous, the superior pair fuscous at their apex.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The thorax anteriorly punctured and opake, posteriorly shining, and with a few punctures at the base of the scutellum; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures black, the extreme base of the wings and the tegulæ pale testaceous; the legs pale ferruginous, with the claws of the tarsi darker.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The posterior margin of the prothorax rounded and yellow; a minute yellow spot on the mesothorax touching the scutellum, the thorax and abdomen covered with a changeable silky pile; the wings subhyaline, their nervures fuscous, a broad dark fuscous border at the apex of the superior pair.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The margin of the prothorax, the tubercles, the scutellum, the tibiæ and tarsi, the anterior femora and the intermediate pair at their apex yellow; the anterior femora black above; the wings subhyaline and iridescent, the nervures testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Thorax: the femora beneath towards their base, the trochanters and coxæ, except their apex, black; the apical joints of the intermediate and posterior tarsi fuscous; wings hyaline, the nervures fusco-ferruginous, the tegulæ reddish-yellow.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The metathorax transversely and rather finely rugose, the truncation more strongly striated; the scutellum shining; the wings subhyaline, the nervures ferruginous; the tibiæ with scattered spines, the tarsi spinose.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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