"Neuration" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... common to very large groups of beetles, but in the Engidae, as Westwood has remarked, the number varies greatly and the number likewise differs in the two sexes of the same species. Again in the fossorial hymenoptera, the neuration of the wings is a character of the highest importance, because common to large groups; but in certain genera the neuration differs in the different species, and likewise in the two sexes of the same species. Sir J. Lubbock has recently remarked, that several minute crustaceans offer excellent ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin
... on the examination of a single individual, which in general appearance exactly resembles the smaller species of the genus Megischus; on examination, however, it will be found that it differs from that genus in the neuration of the anterior wings; its femora are not denticulate, in which character it differs from both Megischus and Stephanus; with the latter genus it agrees in ...
— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various
... variation similar to those now adduced among butterflies might be increased indefinitely, but it is as well to note that such important characters as the neuration of the wings, on which generic and family distinctions are often established, are also subject to variation. The Rev. R.P. Murray, in 1872, laid before the Entomological Society examples of such variation in six species of butterflies, and other cases have been since described. The larvae of butterflies ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace |
