humeral lobe

humeral lobe
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
The base of the costal margin of the hind wing that overlaps the fore wing in some primitive forms that serves to prevent the wings from moving out of phase.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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