Conspurcatus: confusedly sprinkled with discolored or dark spots.
Constituent: a part or element of a whole.
Constricted: drawn in: narrowed medially and dilated toward the extremities.
Contiguous: so near together as to touch.
Contorted: twisted: obliquely incumbent upon each other.
Contract -ed: to draw or drawn together: to reduce, or reduced in size by contraction.
Contractile: that which may be drawn together or contracted or which has the power of contracting.
Contrasting: appearing in sharp relief or contrast; as one color or marking against another.
Converging: approaching each other toward the tip.
Convergence: the approaching or drawing together at tips.
Convex: the outer curved surface of a segment of a sphere; opposed to concave: convex veins are those which occupy the summits of ridges on the upper surface of - wing; see concave veins.
Convolute: rolled or twisted spirally: also applied to wings when they are wrapped around the body.
Coprophagus: feeding on excrement or on decaying vegetable matter of an excrementitious character.
Copula, Copulation: the act of sexual union.
Copulate: to unite in sexual intercourse.
Copulation chamber: a chamber or cell excavated by certain Scolytid beetles in their burrows, in which copulation takes place: = rammel-kammer.
Corbel: an ovate area at the distal end of the tibia in Coleoptera, surrounded by a fringe of minute bristles; when the articular cavity is on the side, above the tip, the corbel is closed; when the cavity is at the extreme tip, the corbel is open.
Corbicula -um: a concave, smooth space, edged by a fringe of hairs arising from the margins of the posterior tibiae in bees, forming the pollen basket its function is to hold the collected pollen in place.
Cordate: heart-shaped; triangular, with the corners of the base rounded: not necessarily emarginate at the middle of base.
Coriaceo-reticulate: with impressed reticulations giving a leather-like appearance.
Coriaceous: leather-like: thick, tough and somewhat rigid.
Coriarious: leather-like in sculpture or texture.
Corium: the elongate middle section of the hemelytra which extends from base to membrane below the embolium.
Cornea: the outer surface of the compound eye as a whole, and of each individual facet.