Word of the day "tegmina" in earwigs, grasshoppers, crickets and cockroaches this is the leathery forewing that protects their more translucent flying wings. They are similar in concept to the elytra found in beetles, but not as hard, and they often do not fully cover the back wings.
Tegmia is the plural, individually they are called tegmen.
The word is stolen from the botanists who use it to describe a protective layer found in seeds.
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@futurebird Integument is the word I'm most familiar with, which is a tough outer layer in any organism, I believe.
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I do love latin. It's like the wayfinder of linguistics for European languages.
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