holometabolous


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hol·o·me·tab·o·lous

(hol'ō-me-tab'ŏ-lŭs),
Pertaining to a member of the Holometabola, a series of insect orders in which complex or complete metamorphosis is found.
[holo- + G. metabolē, change]

holometabolous

characteristic of insects in the Diptera family consisting of egg, up to three larval stages, pupa and an adult stage which differs markedly from the earlier stages.
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Nutritional and life history determinants of resource allocation in holometabolous insects.
Nuptial gifts, resource budgets, and reproductive output in a polyandrous butterfly
Insects with holometabolous development currently are the most diverse clade of multicellular organisms, consisting of approximately 766,100 described living species (Davis et al.
Evidence for an earliest late carboniferous divergence time and the early larval ecology and diversification of major Holometabola lineages
In holometabolous insects, other patterns of change were shown.
Specificity and developmental changes in hemagglutinating activity of serum of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria (Orthoptera: Acrididae)
They can be highly significant in suppressing populations of holometabolous pest insects and an important component in all terrestrial ecosystems.
Efecto de trampas de color sobre captura de avispas (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)
Mitochondrial genomes have also been used to estimate the higher-level phylogeny of Neuropterida and their relationship to other holometabolous insects, including nine beetles in the suborders Adephaga and Polyphaga (Cameron et al.
Towards a temporal framework for "inordinate fondness": reconstructing the macroevolutionary history of beetles (coleoptera)
Growth ratios in holometabolous and hemimetabolous insects.
The significance of body size in the Orthoptera: a review
In a previous study, Cornell and Hawkins (1995) compiled 530 life tables for 124 holometabolous herbivore species to analyze causes of mortality.
Predators, parasitoids and pathogens as mortality agents in phytophagous insect populations
Nutritional and life-history determinants of resource allocation in holometabolous insects.
New and revised life history of the Florida hairstreak Eumaeus atala (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) with notes on its current conservation status
Various insects, hemi- as well as holometabolous, emerge ar successively smaller sizes throughout the emergence period (Nesterovitch and Zwick 2003).
Distribucion estacional del tamano de Anacroneuria (Plecoptera: Perlidae) en un rio tropical andino
In the holometabolous insects with a shorter development time in males (i.
Phenotypic plasticity and sexual dimorphism in size at post-juvenile metamorphosis: common-garden rearing of an intertidal gastropod with determinate growth
Among several theoretical models based on the assumption on the existence of trade-offs between preadult development and body size of holometabolous insects (Roff 1981; Sibly et al.
Laboratory evolution of life-history traits in the bean weevil (Acanthoscelides obtectus): the effects of density-dependent and age-specific selection
Among holometabolous insects, in particular, the higher the quality of the adult diet and/or the potential importance to reproduction of adult female feeding, the longer the time that age-specific fecundity stays high and constant before its eventual decline [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED].
Reproductive allocation from reserves and income in butterfly species with differing adult diets

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