exopterygote

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[ek-soh-ter-i-goht] / ˌɛk soʊˈtɛr ɪˌgoʊt /

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the class Exopterygota, comprising the insects that undergo incomplete metamorphosis.

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noun

1. an exopterygote insect.

Etymology

Origin of exopterygote

< New Latin Exopterygota, equivalent to exo- exo- + Greek pterygōtá, neuter plural of pterygōtós winged

Example Sentences

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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In a previous chapter reference was made to the exopterygote insects, stone-flies, dragon-flies, and may-flies, whose preparatory stages live in the water.

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All these insects must have been exopterygote in their life-history, if we may trust the indications of affinity furnished by their structure.

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The foregoing brief outline of our knowledge of the geological succession of insects shows that the exopterygote preceded, in time, the endopterygote type of life-history.

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And from the analogy of the periodic loss and recovery of wings in various generations of the same species, he has concluded that the gap between the exopterygote and the endopterygote method of development may have been bridged by an anapterygote condition; that the ancestors of those insects with complete transformations were the wingless descendants of primitive insects which grew their wings from visible external rudiments, and that in later times re-acquiring wings, they developed these organs in a new way, from inwardly directed rudiments or imaginal buds.

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