Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the wings and appendages enclosed or covered by a secretion that forms a hard shell or horny case, as the pupae of most butterflies and moths.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In entomology, same as
obtected .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective entomology, of a pupa Having the legs and other appendages are more or less strongly cemented to the body.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Larvatae: asked; applied to coarctate and obtect pupae.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Dissepiment: a partition wall: applied to the forming septa separating the coelom-sacs in the embryo; also the thin envelope about the members in obtect pupae.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Micropterygidae; mandibles not functionally present; pupa incomplete or obtect: see paleolepidoptera and protolepidoptera.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Dolioloides: applied to obtect or coarctate pupae.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Mucro: a long, straight or curved process terminating in a point: the pro-sternal process in Elateridae: the terminal spine or process of an obtect pupa: "the median posterior point of the epigastrium when differentiated by elevation."
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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In the incompletely obtect pupa, this motion is evident in a greater number of segments than in the completely obtect, the number concerned varying from five to two in different families.
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T.A. Chapman has shown (1893) that the completely obtect pupa characterises the more highly developed families of Lepidoptera, while in the more primitive families the pupa is incompletely obtect.
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Consequently the _obtect_ pupa, as this type is called, does not resemble its imago as fully as a free pupa does.
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Instead the terms cephalothorax or prosoma are widely used.}: that portion of an obtect pupa covering head and thorax: the anterior segments of larva that have no obviously separated head.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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