Exempel på apices

• Halteres with pale stems, thickly covered with pale scales, the apices with small dark flat scales.

• The lobe margins are entire, with 1 or 2 long, slender, cilia-like projections along the lobes margins and at lobe apices.

• The dark areas contain brownish black basal scales at the apices of the lobes, and a few clusters of pale scales before the apices.

• The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed apices noticeably up- or down-turned.

• Mesowear was recorded by examining the buccal apices of molar tooth cusps.

• Their structures are covered with tubular tenent hairs, the apices of which are moistened by a glandular secretion.

• They damage the mango by folding the apices and margins of the leaves longitudinally.

• The apexes are often 1 cm or more from the tumor, so clear margins at the apices can be ignored.

• The 23 mm long calyx teeth are ovate-triangular in shape and are subequal or the posterior teeth larger, with rigid apices.

• Their alternate leaves are ovate-elliptic, with margins entire or occasionally repand, with acute apices and broadly cuneate to subrounded bases.

• The forewings are shining ochreouswhite, but more whitish near the wing base and more ochreous near the apices.

• Antennae longer than body, extending beyond apices by 3-4 antennomeres.

• The hindwings are white, shading to grey at the apices.

• The proboscises often have sharp apices as well as a host of barbs and spurs on the stem.

• Their apices are acute to acuminate while the surfaces are glabrous, puberulent, or hirsute-ciliate, meaning with longer, shaggier hairs.