One Reddit user, u/Oceanic_stars, recently shared intriguing artwork of a proposed mob called the “Elytra Beetle,” showcasing its wings both closed and open. They also described the potential ...

The beetle, having lost the ability to fly away from danger, has evolved crush-resistant forewings (known as elytra), to survive being pecked to death by hungry birds. The researchers used ...

The study revealed that beetles use elastic energy and flapping forces to passively deploy hindwings for flight and retract them using the elytra (modified, hardened forewing of beetles ...

Metallic green head with copper-brown wing covers (elytra). The sides of the abdomen have five white patches of hair and the tip of the abdomen has two patches of white hair. Japanese beetles were ...

Like all beetles, they have 6 legs, and the front wings are hardened into armored plates called elytra that at least partially cover the abdomen. The typical ground beetle is black, often with some ...

In most beetles, the front pair of wings has adapted to form tough, protective cases that lie across their back, giving them their armoured appearance. These wing cases (called elytra), protect the ...

The two sets of thin membranous wings are covered with a hard shell set of wings called the elytra. Normally, when a beetle flies, these elytra are lifted up for the wings to spread and fly.

An analysis of the beetles' elytra — the hardened casings on top of each forewing — shows that the shields interlock like a 3D jigsaw puzzle and can deform under enormous weight without losing ...

[3] These beetles have a soft and rather elongated bodies. The head is elongated. The mandibles are bifid. Antennae are long and filiform, composed by eleven segments. Pronotum is hearh-shaped. Elytra ...

The violet ground beetle is black with a metallic-purple sheen, especially around the flattened edges of its fused wing cases (elytra). There are two very similar species of violet ground beetle which ...