puparium
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Cuticle of pupa or puparium splitting longitudinally down the back, to allow escape of imago.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
Among the Diptera, most species pass the winter as pupae, the sheltering puparium being a good protection against most adverse conditions, or as flies.
From The Life-Story of Insects by Carpenter, George H. (George Herbert)
The very day it is hatched, it sheds its skin and changes to an oval puparium of a dark brown color.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
The second brood of larvæ remains through the winter in the flax-seed, or puparium.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
In about as many more days the puparium state would be entered, and in about six days more the fly or imago would appear.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various
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