Comments on classifications of insect ontogenies, and occurence of proneometabolous wing development in termite genus Prorhinotermes (Hexapoda: Isoptera)

Autor: Štys, Pavel, 1933-2018
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Jazyk: angličtina
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Druh dokumentu: Non-fiction
ISSN: 1211-376X
Abstrakt: Abstract: The recent classification of kinds of insect metamorphoses is reviewed, commented upon, and emended. The neometabolic modes of the Thysanoptera: Tubulifera is termed diametaboly (new term), and it is argued for re-instatement of the term homometaboly for the development of the Aphidomorpha: Adelgoidea. The occurrence of neometaboly in all the higher taxa of Thysanoptera and Sternorrhyncha (except Psyllomorpha) is ascribed to an underlying synapomorphy. A special mode of development of forewing pads (separation of the latter by a sulcus from mesonotum) is identified in the Psyllomorpha, Coleorrhyncha and the most basal Heteroptera (Enicocephalomorpha: Enicocephalidae), and is termed anaptery (new term). The pecularities of developmental pathway, wing development, and distribution, in the genus Prorhinotermes Silvestri, 1909 (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) are summarized and assessed. There is only one wing-padded isntar (non-quiescent), and the development, called proneometaboly (new term), is eternally similar to the acercarian neometaboly. It is the first case of such a development among the universally hemimetabolous "polyneopteran complex".
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