haltere

Halter is a alternative form of haltere.

As nouns the difference between haltere and halter

is that haltere is a small knobbed structure in some two-winged insects, one of a pair that are flapped rapidly and function as accelerometers to maintain stability in flight while halter is a bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.

As a verb halter is

to place a halter on.

As nouns the difference between halters and haltere

is that halters is plural of lang=en while haltere is a small knobbed structure in some two-winged insects, one of a pair that are flapped rapidly and function as accelerometers to maintain stability in flight.

As a verb halters

is third-person singular of halter.

As a noun haltere

is a small knobbed structure in some two-winged insects, one of a pair that are flapped rapidly and function as accelerometers to maintain stability in flight.

As a verb haltered is

past tense of halter.

In entomology terms the difference between haltere and calyptra

is that haltere is a small knobbed structure in some two-winged insects, one of a pair that are flapped rapidly and function as accelerometers to maintain stability in flight while calyptra is in flies such as the housefly, Musca, in the taxonomic order Diptera, zoological section Schizophora, subsection Calyptrata, the calyptra is a membranous rearward extension of the forewing; it covers the haltere.