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testaceous

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tes·ta·ceous  (t-stshs)
adj.
1. Biology
a. Having a hard shell or shell-like outer covering: testaceous echinoderms.
b. Composed of a shell or shell-like material: a testaceous operculum.
2. Having the reddish-brown or brownish-yellow hue of bricks.
[From Latin testceus, from testa, shell.]
testaceous [tɛˈsteɪʃəs]
adj Biology
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) of, relating to, or possessing a test or testa
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) of the reddish-brown colour of terra cotta
[from Latin testācens, from testa]
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Adj.1.testaceous - relating to or possessing a testa or hard shell; "testaceous fish"
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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.
New species of South African Dryinidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) by Olmi, Massimo / African Invertebrates
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.
First North American records of the east Palearctic seed beetle ... by Hoebeke, E. Richard; Wheeler, A.G., Jr.; Kingsolver, John M.; Stephan, David L. / Florida Entomologist
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.
Two new species of Dryinidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) from China
 
 
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