All but the most basal forms exhibit this wing coupling.
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The dark colour of its wings coupled with its large surface area acts as a black body, and absorbs the electromagnetic energy from the sun's rays.
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Some four-winged insect orders, such as the Lepidoptera, have developed a wide variety of morphological wing coupling mechanisms in the imago which render these taxa as " functionally dipterous ".
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The jugum on the forewings of the adult is an archaic wing coupling mechanism; further primitive characteristics include, as adults, the lack of mouthparts, large spacing between the fore-and hindwings, and the arrangement of the female genitalia.
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It is less widely realised that similar hamuli, though usually fewer, are used in wing coupling in the Sternorrhyncha, the vestige of the rear wing to persist is a futile little strap holding the hamuli, still hooking into the fold of the large front wings.