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testaceous

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testaceous Biology
1. of, relating to, or possessing a test or testa
2. of the reddish-brown colour of terra cotta


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Head brown, with mandibles, anterior margin of face, malar space, clypeus and a short median longitudinal stripe near clypeus testaceous; antennae brown, with segment 1 testaceous and segment 10 whitish; prothorax testaceous-brown; scutum testaceous, with anterior third dark; rest of mesosoma brown-testaceous and partly brown; gaster brown; legs brown, with part of coxae, trochanters, articulations and tarsi testaceous or testaceous-brown.
Integument of head usually black, sometimes testaceous; pronotum, elytra, and pygidium black, sometimes testaceous (among specimens examined); ventral areas black except abdomen sometimes testaceous; antenna generally entirely testaceous, but some specimens with apical segments black; fore and mid legs reddish orange; metafemur usually with basal 1/2 black, apical 1/2 testaceous.
Head black, except mandibles, clypeus and part of genae near antennal toruli testaceous-whitish; antennae brown; mesosoma black; gaster brown; legs testaceous, except mid coxae basally black and hind coxae almost totally black.
 
 
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