hindmargin

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hindmargin (plural hindmargins)

  1. The hindmost edge, especially when it differs in some property from the rest of the body part.
    • 1976, Richard M. Bohart, Richard Mitchell Bohart, Arnold S. Menke, Sphecid Wasps of the World: A Generic Revision, →ISBN, page 27:
      The pronotum in bees is similar to sphecids, but it is always short and sometimes the hindmargin is concavely arcuate.
    • 2006, Marianne Horak, Olethreutine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), →ISBN, page 415:
      All these characters separate N. niveimacula from a sympatric and closely related, unnamed Notocydia species with a narrower white band across the forewing, but also with a scale pencil along the hindmargin of the hindwing cell in the male.

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