Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pupa included within the last larval skin; a coarctate pupa; a larva pupigera, as in all dipterous insects of the division Cyclorhapha and in many of the Orthorhapha. See cut under
Pipiza .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The enclosing
case of apupa
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Examples
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On the other hand, there is a dark object inside the Mesodon shell that may be the puparium.
Another insect life cut short AYDIN 2008
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On the other hand, there is a dark object inside the Mesodon shell that may be the puparium.
Archive 2008-06-01 AYDIN 2008
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Subsequently, I found the fly's puparium inside an Anguispira fergusoni shell.
Pherbellia albovaria AYDIN 2008
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Subsequently, I found the fly's puparium inside an Anguispira fergusoni shell.
Archive 2008-07-01 AYDIN 2008
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Last Thursday afternoon I was at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and gave the fly and the shell with the puparium to the entomology collection.
Archive 2008-07-01 AYDIN 2008
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After I took this picture, I opened a hole in the shell and visually confirmed that the object inside was indeed a puparium.
Pherbellia albovaria AYDIN 2008
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In the original post, I had a picture of a M. thyroidus shell that I thought contained the puparium of the dead fly.
Archive 2008-07-01 AYDIN 2008
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Last Thursday afternoon I was at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and gave the fly and the shell with the puparium to the entomology collection.
Pherbellia albovaria AYDIN 2008
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In the original post, I had a picture of a M. thyroidus shell that I thought contained the puparium of the dead fly.
Pherbellia albovaria AYDIN 2008
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After I took this picture, I opened a hole in the shell and visually confirmed that the object inside was indeed a puparium.
Archive 2008-07-01 AYDIN 2008
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