Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
postocular shield . - Lying behind the eye (on the surface of the body of any animal); running back from the eye, as a streak of color; postorbital.
- In entomology, situated behind or beneath the compound eyes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) Same as
postorbital .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Situated behind the
eyes .
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The new species is distinguished from all congeners by having a melanistic color pattern, with head and dorsum of the body mostly dark-brown to black; absence of postocular stripe; venter grayish-brown, with dark rounded blotches outlining two lateral stripes which become gradually paler towards the posterior region of the belly, disappearing after midbody.
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