An alternative plural spelling of the specialized wings of true bugs (Hemiptera).
Variant plural form using doubled 't' before the final 'a', reflecting different Latinization conventions in early entomological texts.
You can spot the age of entomology papers by their spelling variants—hemelyttra vs. hemelytra shows how scientific terminology stabilized as the field matured and standardized.
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