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What is a clypeus?

What is a clypeus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (entomology) The shield-shaped front part of an insect's head or a spider's cephalothorax.
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The portion of the face bounded by this groove is called the clypeus.
Although the clypeus and labrum of Reboursia exhibit a sphaeromatoid shape, it has a broad separation between the antennular basal articles.
It is known that the temperature of the laconicum was regulated by drawing up or down a metallic plate or clypeus.
Fabricius has denominated this part the clypeus, in which he has been followed by most modern Entomologists.
Their monophyly is undisputed, given the five elongate, stiff mouthpart elements forming a distinctive beak, and an enlarged clypeus.
Note the tumid convex clypeus which composes most of the anterior aspect of the head.

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