Pupa
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A pupa is the life stage of insects from the Holometabola clade undergoing metamorphosis between immature and mature stages. Insects that go through a pupal stage are holometabolous: they go through f
Pupa of the rose chafer beetle, Cetonia aurata
Tumbler (pupa) of a mosquito. Unlike most pupae, tumblers can swim around actively.
Adult Hercus fontinalis, a species of parasitoid wasp, emerging from cocoon
An eclosing Julia butterfly
Mosquito
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Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species. The word mosquito is Spanish and Portuguese for little fly. Mosquitoes have a slender, segmented body, one pair of w
Pupa
…emergence. The pupae of different groups of insects have different names such as chrysalis for the pupae of butterflies and tumbler for those of the mosquito family. Unlike the fully motile larval and imago stages, the pupal stage of an insect is typically sessile, where the pupa remains anchored to a location…
Aedes aegypti
Adult yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti, typical of subfamily Culicinae. Male (left) has bushy antennae and longer palps than female (right)
Anopheles eggs with side floats
Electron micrograph of a culicine egg