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Merriam Webster's

noun (plural hemelytra) Etymology: New Latin, from hemi- + elytron Date: circa 1889 one of the basally thickened anterior wings of various insects (as true bugs)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hemelytron Hem*el"y*tron (? or ?), Hemelytrum Hem*el"y*trum (-tr[u^]m cf. Elytron, 277),, n.; pl. Hemelytra. [NL. See Hemi, and Elytron.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.