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What is a pronotum?

What is a pronotum? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The dorsal plate of the prothorax in insects.
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The pronotum and elytra are often adorned with bright colours or metallic lustre, and marked with stripes or spots.
Caudal lobe of the pronotum six sided, neither elevated nor produced caudad.
There remain the frons the post-ocular patch, the pronotum, the hind femora and the abdominal tergites.
Prosternum and prosternal process with abundant, yellowish pubescence, distinctly longer than on pronotum.
The light proceeds from a pair of conspicuous smooth ovoid spots on the pronotum and from an area beneath the base of the abdomen.
Thorax black, pronotum with dark brown ventral part and yellow centre, tegulae dark brown, mesoscutellum and mesoscutellar appendage yellow.

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