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Calomera cabigasi morphological description

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[Main] [Tiger Beetles of PH] [Genus Calomera ] Calomera cabigasi  Cassola, 2011 Calomera   cabigasi   is similar to  C.  decemguttata   but smaller in size, have darker elytra, and pattern of elytral spots are slightly different. Head Gena and head glabrous, dull black in color, with greenish reflections at the orbital declivities. Eyes yellowish in color. Labrum yellow, narrowly blackened in front, wider than longer, distinctly raised in the middle. In females, two adjacent teeth may be present. Mandibles are short, yellow at base, black on teeth. Palpi slightly dark, maxillary palps metallic black with slight greenish reflections, labials yellow with last joint metallic greenish black. Antennae slender, longer in males than in females, antennomeres 1-4 metallic black with some green reflections, antenomeres 5-11 dull brownish-black, finely and evenly pubescent. Thorax Pronotum subsquare, subparallel-sided, glabrous, some white setae on lateral margins. D