Its condition thus recalls the pupal instar of the higher (Endopterygote) Hexapoda; and the Thysanoptera, though few in number, are seen to be of great interest to the student, exhibiting at once a transition between the biting and the suctorial mouth, and the passage from " incomplete " to " complete " metamorphosis. [Please select]
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Ceratheca or Ceratotheca: that portion of the pupal shell that envelops the antenna. [Please select]
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Dehiscence: the splitting of the pupal integument in the emergence of the adult in Lepidoptera. [Please select]
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Galeotheca: that part of the pupal case that covers the gales. [Please select]
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{Scanner's comment: nowadays applied to far more orders, generally to those that undergo a marked metamorphosis, but without a pupal stage. [Please select]
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Holometabolous: having a complete transformation; with egg, larval, pupal and adult stages distinctly separated. [Please select]
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Nymph: the larval stage of insects with incomplete metamorphosis: applies also to their pupal stage, and sometimes used as = pupa. [Please select]
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Pre-pupal: that stage in the larva just preceding the change to pupa. [Please select]
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A succeeding stage of this mite, which may be called the pupal, is considerably smaller than the larva and looks somewhat like the adult, the body having become shorter and broader. [Please select]
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So slight are the differences between the different stages that it is difficult to say where the larval stage ends and the pupa begins, so also where the pupal state ends and the imago begins. [Please select]
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