How To Use Haltere In A Sentence
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Vertex bluish-purple; face and pectus silvery; antennæ testaceous, arista about half the length of the body; fourth and fifth segments of the abdomen deep black with a cupreous band on the hind border of each segment, tip blue; legs and halteres testaceous; wings greyish, paler along the hind border, tips black, fore branch of the præbrachial vein slightly curved inward, discal transverse vein slightly undulating.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The mare should be haltered and facing the foal during this process.
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Face with snow-white tomentum on each side; thorax with four hoary stripes; pectus with a cinereous disk; scutellum pale luteous; abdomen pale luteous at the base, and with a broad interrupted pale luteous band on the second segment, third and fourth segments somewhat chalybeous, the former livid along the fore border, under side with two lateral abbreviated pale luteous stripes; hind femora thick; wings grey, veins towards the base, and halteres, tawny.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Head in front and the pectus white; antennæ ferruginous at the base; abdomen long, a hoary band on the hind border of each segment; femora, tibiæ, and tarsi white at the base; hind legs long, rather stout; hind femora with a luteous band; wings limpid, veins black; halteres whitish, with piceous knobs.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Head pale yellow, black hindward, white beneath; antennæ pale luteous, third joint very short, arista bare; scutellum white; pectus with a white spot on each side; abdomen white at the tip; middle legs with testaceous tibiæ and tarsi; hind wings blackish, cinereous hindward; halteres snow-white.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Aguirre haltered Asong for Billy for owner Wongs Stable after a fourth-place finish in his second career start at the Inglewood, California, track on July 4.
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Halteres are the tiny club-shaped hindwings characteristic of all flies.
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The man was speedily placed on the cathead and haltered.
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And hale him forth a haltered steer, and goad and turn him till evenfall.
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_ Head and pectus with white tomentum and hairs; mystax with a few black bristles; mouth and antennæ black; third joint of the latter linear, conical at the tip, longer than the first and the second together; thorax with cupreous-gilded tomentum; abdomen purple, green at the base, blue and with a row of white dots along each side; legs blue; wings brown, cinereous towards the base, veins black; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Head with gilded pubescence, cinereous behind and beneath; antennæ tawny, second joint above towards the tip and third joint piceous; thorax slightly covered with gilded tomentum; pectus with cinereous tomentum; abdomen with gilded tomentum towards the tip; legs tawny, femora mostly black, tibiæ with black stripes; wings cinereous, dark-brown about the costa, veinlet which bisects the subapical areolet incomplete, as it is also in the following species; halteres tawny.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The reduced remnants of the second pair of wings are known as halteres, and seem to function as stabilizers or as airspeed detectors.
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Testifying to the same story, there are mutant fruit flies, so-called homeotic mutants, whose embryology is abnormal and who grow not halteres but a second pair of wings, like a bee or any other kind of insect.
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Head testaceous, face transverse; antennæ testaceous, third joint elongate-conical; arista bare; abdomen blackish blue, second segment very large, third and following not visible; legs testaceous; wings limpid, with four transverse pale brown subcostal streaks; discal transverse vein parted by less than half its length from the border, and by less than its length from the flexure of the præbrachial; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Inactivity of the first gene of the bithorax-complex in the appropriate larval segment caused other homeotic genes to respecify the 3rd thoracic segment into one that forms wings instead of halteres.
Lewis' Discoveries
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So the cony-catcher went up to the ass and, loosing it from the halter, gave the beast to his fellow; then he haltered his own head and followed Tom Fool till he knew the other had got clean off with the ass, when he stood still.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Head blue in front, sides of the face cupreous-purple; mouth, antennæ, and tarsi black; arista snow-white; thorax with two almost contiguous darker stripes; abdomen æneous green, with the exception of the petiole, which is very thick; wings slightly greyish, costal half black; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Your horse has been haltered up.
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Head whitish; third joint of the antennæ short, conical, whitish, blackish at the tip, arista plumose; thorax with a brown stripe; scutellum whitish; abdomen black; legs whitish, with black bands; wings white, with many blackish spots, some of them confluent; discal transverse vein straight, parted by much less than its length from the border, and by a little less than its length from the præbrachial transverse; halteres whitish.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Deran sighed and started tacking up two horses, leaving another one haltered for use as a pack animal.
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How do we know that halteres are descended from ancestral wings?
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What would the intermediate stages between wings and halteres have looked like, and why would natural selection have favoured the intermediates?
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Head black above, testaceous beneath; antennæ testaceous; abdomen with four broad abbreviated piceous bands; legs tawny, hind tibiæ black with a tawny apical mark, hind tarsi black towards the base; wings greyish, slightly lurid towards the base, blackish-brown about the exterior part of the costa, veins black, tawny towards the base; halteres testaceous, tawny towards the tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Briefly, foals were quietly caught, haltered, and held still while being handled for 10 min.
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There are imaginal discs for each of the six legs, two wings, and the two halteres (balancing organs), and for the genital apparatus, eyes, antennae, and other adult head structures.
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Mouth yellow; thorax with four stripes of slightly gilded tomentum; tip of the abdomen with cinereous tomentum; legs whitish, hind femora towards the tips and hind tibiæ black; wings greyish, veins and stigma black; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The sense organs at the base of halteres are very similar – another piece of evidence that halteres are modified wings.
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They were suffered to have rope enough till they had haltered themselves.
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The operation called lunging, in which a haltered colt is made to trot round and round
A Laodicean : a Story of To-day
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Face and pectus whitish; antennæ piceous; abdomen cupreous-black, dull testaceous towards the base; hind legs black, hind tibiæ towards the base and anterior legs dull testaceous; wings blackish, paler along the hind border, veins black, præbrachial vein and discal transverse vein straight; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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During flight, the halteres beat in precise anti-phase with the forewings, thereby activating several hundred specialized mechanosensory cells at the base of the structures.
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He was haltered by his current trainer, Leah Gyarmati, for $35,000 at Aqueduct in his last start in 1999, and is 2-2 - 0 in five starts this year with earnings of $89,720.
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As early as 1932, before his arrival here, Gottfried Fraenkel clipped off the halteres of flies (the balancing organs behind the sole pair of wings) to see what would happen to their flight responses.
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Thorax and pectus tawny, the former globose, with a black dorsal spot; abdomen tawny at the base; anterior legs testaceous, hind femora spinose beneath; wings grey, darker at the tips; stigma and veins black; halteres testaceous, with piceous tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The reduced remnants of the second pair of wings are known as halteres, and seem to function as stabilizers or as airspeed detectors.
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a few whitish bristles; pectus whitish; hind borders of the abdominal segments ferruginous; legs testaceous; femora striped with black; tarsi black, ferruginous at the base; wings limpid, blackish at the tips; costa deep black, incrassated in the middle; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The subaltern with the eyeglass is a bad route-marcher, and Wankin once remarked in an audible whisper that the officer had learned his company drill with a drove of haltered pack-horses, and the officer bears the name of "Pack-horse" ever since.
The Amateur Army
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_ Black, with gilded tomentum, which forms two bands on the thorax, and one on each side of the pectus; abdomen with three gilded tomentose bands, the third subapical, first segment ferruginous beneath; legs tawny, femora at the base and coxæ black; wings blackish-brown, dark cinereous hindward; halteres tawny.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Historians of the ancient Olympics have always questioned how hand-held weights called halteres depicted on many Greek vases and found at sporting sites all over Greece were used.
Leapin' Olympians
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Face and pectus slightly covered with cinereous tomentum, the latter bluish-green; antennæ black, arista much more than half the length of the body; metathorax green; abdomen blue, sutures black; legs and halteres black; wings grey, fore branch of the præbrachial vein much curved inward, discal transverse vein straight; length of the body 2-1/2 -- 2-3/4 lines; of the wings 5 lines.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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_ Coal-black, shining; antennæ tawny; thorax slightly tomentose; spines of the scutellum and legs white; wings blackish grey, paler towards the hind border, veins black; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Calypter: Diptera; the alula or squama when it covers the haltere.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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Face silvery; antennæ testaceous, black towards the tips, arista full as long as the thorax; thorax with three cupreous stripes; pectus silvery; abdomen with cupreous purple bands and with whitish spots along each side; legs testaceous, tarsi and hind tibiæ black; wings slightly greyish, blackish brown along the costa and about the transverse veins, veins black, fore branch of the præbrachial vein curved inward, discal transverse vein undulating; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Thorax and pectus tawny, the former globose, with a black dorsal spot; abdomen tawny at the base; anterior legs testaceous, hind femora spinose beneath; wings grey, darker at the tips; stigma and veins black; halteres testaceous, with piceous tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The critical role of the haltere in flight stability was first identified in 1714 by William Derham, who showed that a fly could not remain airborne if its tiny halteres were surgically removed.
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During flight, the halteres beat in precise anti-phase with the forewings, thereby activating several hundred specialized mechanosensory cells at the base of the structures.
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Face and pectus silvery; antennæ black, arista longer than the thorax; thorax with three broad reddish cupreous stripes; abdomen with broad cupreous purple bands; femora lutescent, tibiæ piceous, fore femora blackish towards the tips, tarsi black; wings black, tips snow-white, fore branch of the præbrachial vein slightly curved inward, discal transverse vein much curved outward; halteres tawny, with black tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Head black, white about the eyes; antennæ testaceous; abdomen clothed with short black bristles; legs testaceous, tarsi piceous; wings grey, with a lurid tinge towards the costa; veins black, discal transverse vein nearly straight, parted by about its length from the border, and by a little more than its length from the præbrachial transverse; alulæ slightly testaceous; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Abdomen ochraceous, black at the tip; femora testaceous at the base; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Head with gilded pubescence, cinereous behind and beneath; antennæ tawny, second joint above towards the tip and third joint piceous; thorax slightly covered with gilded tomentum; pectus with cinereous tomentum; abdomen with gilded tomentum towards the tip; legs tawny, femora mostly black, tibiæ with black stripes; wings cinereous, dark-brown about the costa, veinlet which bisects the subapical areolet incomplete, as it is also in the following species; halteres tawny.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Head chalybeous; antennæ red; legs tawny, hind tibiæ piceous towards the tips, hind tarsi piceous towards the base; wings blackish, darker along the costa, cinereous towards the tips with the exception of the costa; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Halteres: the poisers or balancers: capitate movable filaments in
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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W. S. Pringle, my old Oxford professor whose forbidding mien and stiff bearing earned him the nickname ‘Laughing John’, was mainly responsible for working out how halteres work.
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Trainer Bob Hess Jr. haltered the five-year-old Knight Skiing gelding for himself and a partner for $32,000 in Wednesday's fourth race, a 1 1/16-mile event.
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In silence and in darkness they loaded the carriage and haltered the horses.
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All this is possible because of two small, vibrating sense organs called halteres, which millions of years ago evolved from what used to be a pair of hind wings.
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Holding back her slight fear, she went to his left side and slowly haltered him.
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When they are all haltered, they pass along, tying one to the other until the whole line is thus fastened.
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Ottawa were duly corralled, haltered, hobbled, surcingled and thrown, finally harnessed and driven by either of the old parties.
The Masques of Ottawa
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Head blue in front, sides of the face cupreous-purple; mouth, antennæ, and tarsi black; arista snow-white; thorax with two almost contiguous darker stripes; abdomen æneous green, with the exception of the petiole, which is very thick; wings slightly greyish, costal half black; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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(ultrabithorax) that enables it to develop "halteres," or balancers.
Evolution News & Views
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She haltered the strangely docile stallion and tied him up in the tie racks, next to an extremely irritable paint gelding being groomed.
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The second pair of wings has become reduced to a pair of ‘halteres’.
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The 4-winged homeotic mutants have changed the Hox mutation so that they atavistically recover the ancestral 4-winged insect condition, and never develop halteres.
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