The larger, anterior pair of wings in Hymenoptera (Fig. 62A), or the only visible pair of wings (commonly referred to as simply the wings) in Diptera (Fig. 63).

A wing arising from the mesothorax, the middle thoracic segment. In Orthoptera, including crickets and katydids, the forewings are usually leathery and are often called tegmina (singular, tegmen).

either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has 4 wings