Pupa

Definition of Pupa

Pu´pa

n.

1.

(Zool.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.

2.

(Zool.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.

Coarctate pupa
a pupa which is incased in the dried-up skin of the larva, as in many Diptera.

Masked pupa
a pupa whose limbs are bound down and partly concealed by a chitinous covering, as in Lepidoptera.

Related Words

chrysalis, insect, pupate

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