(of certain animals, esp some types of ant) having small reduced wings
Examples of 'micropterous' in a sentence
micropterous
Furthermore, the percentage of micropterous individuals has increased markedly in areas first colonized a decade previously.
Stephane Bourassa, John Spence, Dustin J. Hartley, Seung Il Lee 2011, 'Wing-dimorphism and population expansion of Pterostichus melanarius (Illiger, 1798)at small and large scales in central Alberta, Canada (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Pterostichini)',ZooKeyshttp://zookeys.pensoft.net/lib/ajax_srv/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_pdf&item_id=2940. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)