Halteres
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title:
Halteres
text:
Halteres are a pair of small club-shaped organs on the body of two orders of flying insects that provide information about body rotations during flight. Insects of the large order Diptera (flies) have halteres which evolved from a pair of ancestral hindwings, while males of the much smaller order Strepsiptera (stylops) have halteres which evolved from a pair of ancestral forewings. Halteres oscillate rapidly along with the wings and operate like vibrating structure gyroscopes: any rotation of th
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Pair of small club-shaped insect organs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halteres
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2024-04-26T17:52:07Z
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