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Pupal type: exarate and lacks mandibles |
Adecticous |
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Adecticous Pupal subtype: legs, wings, antennae free & movable |
Exarate |
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Adecticous pupal subtype: butterfly/moth. Legs, wings, antennae immobile |
Obtect |
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Pupal type: exarate with mandibles |
Decticous |
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Pupal type: Appendages not visible |
Coarctate |
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Larval type: ladybird or lacewing. Well developed legs, antennae and flattened body |
Campodeiform |
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Larval type: click beetle. Worm-like |
Elateriform |
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Larval type: Moths/sawflies. Caterpillar-like |
Eruciform |
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Larval form: June beetle or dung beetle. Curled body forms letter C |
Scarabaeiform |
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Larval form: house fly, flesh fly: Maggot shaped with no legs |
Vermiform |
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No feet or rudimentary feet |
Apod |
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Insect pupa |
Chrysalis |
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Shedding of old exoskeleton |
Ecdyses |
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Emerging from pupal case or egg |
Eclosion |
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Undergoes radical metamorphosis. Holometabola |
Endopterygote |
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Undergoes modest metamorphosis. Hemimetabolus |
Exopterygote |
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Partial metamorphosis: |
Hemimetabolous |
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Complete metamorphosis |
Holometabolous |
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Part that becomes portion of the outside of the body in holometabolous insects |
Imaginal discs |
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Adult form |
Imago |
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Non-adult form or nymphs/naiads |
Larva |
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Undergoes any kind of metamorphosis
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Metabolous |
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Young larva looks completely different from adult |
Naiad |
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Young resembles adult |
Nymph |
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Fully developed legs & segmented abdomen |
Oligopod |
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In transition between stages of development |
Pharate |
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Many feet |
Polypod |
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Early, undifferentiated stage of insect embryo |
Protopod |
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Winged insect |
Pterygote |
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Organ on forehead that expands to help fly rupture pupa |
Ptilinum |
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Inactive, immature form between larva and adult |
Pupa |
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Skin that encloses pupa |
Puparium |
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Stage between nymph and imago. Insect has wings but will molt again |
Subimago |
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Vulnerable stage right after molt where exoskeleton is not hardened |
Teneral |
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Flattened structure on nymph that will form wings |
Wing bud |