10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYPODOUS»
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Encyclopedia of Entomology
Polypodous. Used to describe an organism with many legs. Including prolegs,
caterpillar (Lepidoptera) and sawfly (Hymenoptera) larvae are polypodous. Most
insects have hexapodous (six legs) larvae and a few have apodous (no legs) ...
Figure 12.3 Examples of different types of holometabolous larvae: (a—c)
polypodous or oligopodous, with three pairs of true legs, (d—f) apodous, no true
legs. (a) Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, (b) Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, (c) Trichoptera,
Molannidae ...
Jill Lancaster, Barbara J. Downes, 2013
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Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at ...
... had already in the first two of these orders begun to wane ; that their evolution
had begun on a higher plane than the polypodous one of the Coleoptera,
Orthoptera and ameta- bolous orders, and that the power was on the verge of
extinction.
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Entomological Pamphlets: Slingerland Collection. ...
... in respect to its abdominal legs, even if we do not take into account other
characters, is a survivor of an ancient and very generalized type, and represents,
as no other known caterpillar, the polypodous ancestor of all Lepidoptera." Of
course ...
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Proceedings of the University of Durham Philosophical ...
However one may regard the present inclusions in the Phylum Arthropoda, it is
clear that this latter section, which includes the Insecta, is monophyletic ; its
single precursory group must have been polypodous. Here it is just as well to
remark, ...
University of Durham. Philosophical Society, 1957
The separate species of Notostraca differ among themselves in the number of
postgenital (polypodous) segments, the number of limbs, and the number of
limbless abdominal segments; these numbers vary even within each separate
species.
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Forest Entomology in West Tropical Africa: Forest Insects of ...
Pilose: covered with hair. Pinnate: feathery. Plicate: folded. Plumose: featherlike;
plumose antennae. Polyembryony: an egg developing into two or more embryos.
Polygamous: mating with many females. Polypodous: bearing both thoracic ...
Michael R. Wagner, Joseph R. Cobbinah, Paul P. Bosu, 2008
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The Insects: Structure and Function
(a) Oligopodous, campodeiform (Hippodamia, Coleoptera]; (b) Oligopodous,
scarabaeiform (Popillia, Coleoptera); (c) polypodous (Neodiprion, Hymenoptera];
(d) apodous, eucephalous (Vespula, Hymenoptera); (e) apodous,
hemicephalous ...
R. F. Chapman, Stephen J. Simpson, Angela E. Douglas, 2013
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Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Myriapodology
Group 1 includes four families of very elongated, polypodous geophilomorphs,
i.e. Himantariidae, Oryidae, Gonibregmatidae and Eriphantidae. For most
species belonging to these families the number of trunk segments has both a
high mean ...
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Arthropod Biology and Evolution: Molecules, Development, ...
... fact that the larvae of some holometabolous insects are polypodous, that is,
possess abdominal appendages of which no trace remains in the adult (e. g.
Sialis among the Megaloptera; the majority of lepidopteran caterpillars and of
sawflies ...
Alessandro Minelli, Geoffrey Boxshall, Giuseppe Fusco, 2013
