calypter

An unidentified tachinid, annotated to indicate a calypter

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek κᾰλύπτρα ("hood"), from κᾰλύπτω.

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