Viki remembers the mysterious figure in the dark calling her 'alula' and, as she does some research, the first of a series of startling events that will change her life forever unfold.    From Wordnik.com.  [News] Reference

Calypter: Diptera; the alula or squama when it covers the haltere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

But the alula opened properly and I decided I must have been overcontrolling, easy to do with Storer-Gulls; they're extremely maneuverable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Past Through Tomorrow]

While it was cycling I opened my left wing and thumbed the alula control -- I had noticed a tendency to sideslip the last time I was airborne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Past Through Tomorrow]

Axillary excision: = a. incision, q.v. Axillary incision: Diptera; an incision on inner margin of wing, near base, which separates the alula from the main part.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Two years ago a boy who had just graduated from orange wings tried it ... knocked off his left alula and primaries on a strut -- went fluttering and spinning down two thousand feet and crashed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Past Through Tomorrow]

They're lovely -- titanalloy struts as light and strong as bird bones, tension-compensated wrist-pinion and shoulder joints, natural action in the alula slots, and automatic flap action in stalling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Past Through Tomorrow]

Lobulus: the partly separated portion of the wings of some flies and of secondaries in some Hymenoptera: also used as = alula; q.v. Lobus: of maxilla = galea; q.v. Locomotion: organs of, are legs and wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Aileron: the scale covering the base of primaries in some insects; see tegulae in Diptera = alula and squama, q.v. Air-sacs or vesicles: pouch-like expansions of tracheal tubes in heavy insects, capable of inflation and supposed to lessen specific gravity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Again, there's an alula-like digit with a huge, curved claw.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

The hindlimbs also have a prominent, alula-like, clawed digit.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

One of Limahuli's conservation success stories is the alula, an ungainly plant that looks like a cabbage on a big stick.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference

All three of its fingers had small curved claws and - as in modern birds and some other feathered maniraptorans - the thumb supported an alula.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science]

A prominent alula-like clawed digit (it is flanged with another membrane) allows the animal to climb and cling; it looks similar to the large thumb present in megabats.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Calyptra: a hood or cap; see alula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference