endopterygote

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[en-doh-ter-i-goht] / ˌɛn doʊˈtɛr ɪˌgoʊt /

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the superorder Endopterygota, comprising the insects that undergo complete metamorphosis.

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noun

1. an endopterygote insect.

Etymology

Origin of endopterygote

First recorded in 1925–30, endopterygote is from the New Latin word Endopterygota a group of insects. See endo-, pterygote

Example Sentences

Further, although the wing-rudiments appear externally in an early instar of an exopterygotous insect, the earliest instars are wingless and wing-rudiments have been previously developing beneath the cuticle, growing however outwards, not inwards as in the larva of an endopterygote.

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The change from an exopterygote to an endopterygote development could, therefore, be brought about by the gradual postponement to a later and later instar of the appearance of the wing-rudiments outside the body, and their correlated growth inwards as imaginal disks.

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We would trace the Hymenoptera back therefore to the primitive endopterygote stock.

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In comparing the transformations of endopterygote insects of different orders, it is worthy of notice that in some cases all the members of an order have larvae remarkably constant in their main structural features, while in others there is great variety of larval form within the order.

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A few examples from other orders of endopterygote insects will illustrate this point.

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