Color–magnitude diagram of the newly detected 55 285 variable candidates. DSCTs: red dots, RRLs: blue dots, EBs: gray dots, LPVs: green dots, CEPHs: yellow circles and T2CEPHs: magenta circles. The magnitudes are not corrected for interstellar extinction. The arrow represents average interstellar extinction of E(V − I) = 0.09 for the LMC (Haschke et al. 2011). The typical distance modulus to the LMC is 18.5 mag (Tisserand et al. 2009).