Clavola: see clava.
Clavus: the club of an antenna lava and clavola: in Heteroptera, the oblong sclerite at the base of the inferior margin of the hemelytra: the knob at the end of the stigmal or radial veins in certain Hymenoptera.
Claws: the claw or hook-like structures at the end of the foot or tarsus.
Cleavage: see segmentation of egg.
Cleft: split: partly divided, longitudinally: in Coleopteran applied to claws so divided that the parts lie one above the other.
Clintheriform: shaped like a plate.
Cloaca: see rectum.
Clubbed: see clavate.
Clypeal suture: marks the division between clypeus and epicranium.
Clypeate: shield-like in form.
Clypeate constriction: applied when a surface is drawn in from the sides so as to produce a shield or saddle-like form.
Clypeo-frontal suture: = clypeal suture.
Clypeus: that portion of the head before or below the front, to which the labrum is attached anteriorly; in Diptera often visible below the margin of the mouth in front, as a more or less visor-shaped piece:= epistoma.
Clypeus-anterior: see ante-clypeus.
Clypeus posterior: see post-clypeus.
Coactus: condensed; of a short stout form.
Coadapted: formed so as to work together to one end; as the mandible and maxilla in Chrysopids, etc.
Coadunate: joined together at base; two or more joined together; said of elytra when permanently united at the suture.
Coagulate: to congeal; to change from a fluid to a jelly.
Coagulum: a clotted mass, as of blood.
Coalescent: united or grown together.
Coarctate: contracted: compacted: applied to that form of pupa in which all the members of the future adult are concealed by a thickened, usually cylindric case or covering, which is often the hardened skin of the larva: beginning with a narrow base, then dilated and thickened.
Cocardes: retractile vesicular bodies on each side of the thorax in certain Malachidae.
Coccineous: cochineal red; dark red [carmine].
Cochleiformis: formed like a snail shell.
Cochleate: spirally twisted like a screw or a univalve shell.
Cocoon: a covering, composed partly or wholly of silk or other viscid fibre, spun or constructed by many larvae as a protection to the pupa.
Cocoon-breaker: structures or processes of the pupa, often on the head, by means of which it works its way out of the cocoon.
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