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During mating, the male tiger beetle uses his mandibles to grasp the female at the rear of her thorax in a groove called the 'coupling sulcus'. The contours of this groove correspond only to the mandibles of a male of her own species, and prevents interspecific breeding by allowing the female to throw off a male of another species. Danum Valley, Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo).

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Adephaga, Borneo, Carabidae, Caraboidea, Cicindelidae, Cicindelinae, Coleoptera, East Malaysia, Insecta, Malaysia, Sabah, Southeast Asia, animal, arthropod, beetle, breed, breeding, copulate, copulating, copulation, fauna, ground beetle, insect, invertebrate, mate, mating, tiger beetle, tropical
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Borneo, Insects
During mating, the male tiger beetle uses his mandibles to grasp the female at the rear of her thorax in a groove called the 'coupling sulcus'. The contours of this groove correspond only to the mandibles of a male of her own species, and prevents interspecific breeding by allowing the female to throw off a male of another species. Danum Valley, Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo).