Sentence examples for second pair of wings from inspiring English sources

Males have yellow and black wings, with characteristic tails in the second pair of wings.

Adult males have two wings and two small knobs or halteres where the second pair of wings would normally develop.

The reduced remnants of the second pair of wings are known as halteres, and seem to function as stabilizers or as airspeed detectors.

Lewis discovered that when some of these genes become mutated, the pair of balancers turns into a second pair of wings, converting the third thoracic segment into the likeness of the second.

Fly (order Diptera), any of several thousand species of insects characterized by the use of only one pair of wings for flight and the reduction of the second pair of wings to knobs (called halteres) used for balance.

Microraptor even shows evidence of a second pair of wings on the hind legs.

The box-elder bug (Boisea trivittatus) is dark brown with three longitudinal red lines on the thorax and red veins in the first pair of wings.

The middle segment is the mesothorax, with the major features being the second pair of legs and the anterior wings.

The mesothorax bears the elytra (wing covers) and the second pair of legs.

Poke a second pair of holes.

In the normal fly, each segment carries a pair of legs, the second segment has a pair of wings, and the third a pair of balancing structures.