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adaptation, and it is not limited to any particular species or morphology. Planidia of different species differ variously from each other in form. The first-instar...

include: Planidia elongulata Obenberger, 1922 Planidia freudei Jelinek, 1971 Planidia hauseri Obenberger, 1931 Planidia vansoni Obenberger, 1936 Planidia velutina...

genus Campodea). There is however, considerable variety in the forms of planidia that occur in various families and orders; in the beetle family Meloidae...

are called "planidia". Adult females lay eggs on vegetation (often flowers) frequented by their host insects; after hatching, the planidia attach themselves...

the trees and wasps have coevolved and are mutualistic. Latina rugosa planidia (arrows, magnified) attached to an ant larva; the Eucharitidae are among...

Some insects that exhibit hypermetamorphosis begin their metamorphosis as planidia, specialised, active, legged larvae, but they end their larval stage as...

finds a suitable host, she deposits planidia (first instar larvae) which then quickly burrow into the host. The planidia develop within the body of the field...

on, the ants. Once inside, they seek out ant larvae as hosts. There the planidia attach to ant host larvae or prepupae where they feed. On completing their...

Females lay large number of eggs, up to 5,000, and after hatching, the planidia seek out spiders. They do not resemble the triungulin of most beetles with...

1991 Phlocteis Kerremans, 1893 Pilotrulleum Bellamy & Westcott, 1995 Planidia Kerremans, 1899 Polyonychus Chevrolat, 1838 Promeliboeus Obenberger, 1924...

feeding until it emerges from its host. The average time of development from planidia to adult is 29.5 days; the average pupal stage is 8.2 days. Because Oraseminae...

Chrysolampidae, and Eutrichosomatidae is that the first-instar larvae (called "planidia") are responsible for gaining access to the host, rather than the egg-laying...