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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...

Genus Heptodonta Hope, 1838

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[Main] [Tiger Beetles of PH] Genus Heptodonta  Hope, 1838 Heptodonta lumawigi Heptodonta melanopyga Heptodonta mindoroensis Distribution Literature data Morphological description [Main] [Tiger Beetles of PH]

Tiger beetles and where to find them - Heptodonta mindoroensis

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[Main] [Tiger Beetles of PH] [Genus Heptodonta ] Heptodonta mindoroensis  Cassola, 2000 information: Named after the island of Mindoro, Philippines where the specimen was found. Philippine distribution: Luzon Oriental Mindoro, Calapan City, Mt. Halcon, Barrio Luyang Visayas none Mindanao none Reference: Cassola, F. 2000. Studies on Tiger Beetles. CII. The Cicindelidae Collected by Roland Müller in the Philippine Islands, with Description of Three New Species (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). Zool. Med. Leiden. Vol. 73; 491-509. [Main] [Tiger Beetles of PH] [Genus  Heptodonta ]

Genus Thopeutica Chaudoir, 1861

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[Main] [Tiger Beetles of PH] Genus Thopeutica Chaudoir, 1861 Thopeutica (Thopeutica) angulihumerosa Distribution Thopeutica (Thopeutica) anichtchenkoi Distribution Thopeutica (Thopeutica) barsevskisi Thopeutica (Thopeutica) darlingtonia Distribution Thopeutica (Thopeutica) hinabanganensis Distribution Thopeutica (Thopeutica) interposita Distribution Thopeutica (Thopeutica) pangantihoni Distribution Thopeutica (Thopeutica) perconspicua Thopeutica (Thopeutica) petertaylori Distribution Thopeutica (Thopeutica) rolandmuelleri Distribution (updating) Thopeutica (Thopeutica) suavissima Distribution Thopeutica (Thopeutica) virginalis Distribution Thopeutica (Thopeutica) wiesneri Distribution Thopeutica (Thopeutica) zetteli Distribution [Main] [Tiger Beetles of PH]

Genus Neocollyris (Horn, 1901)

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[Main] [Tiger Beetles of PH] Genus Neocollyris  Horn, 1901 Neocollyris (Heterocollyris) chaudoiri sciakyi Distribution Neocollyris (Heterocollyris) similior [Main] [Tiger Beetles of PH]