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endopterygote, a. and n. Ent.|ˌɛndəʊpˈtɛrɪgəʊt|
Also -ic, -ous adjs.
[f. mod.L. Endopterygota (D. Sharp 1899, in Proc. IV Int. Congr. Zool. 1898 246), f. Gr. ἔνδον within + πτερυγωτός winged.]
Belonging to the division Endopterygota of insects, which develop their wings internally until the pupa stage. Also as n. Hence ˌendopteryˈgotism.
1899Proc. Intern. Congress Zool. 1898 248 The great majority of existing insects are endopterygotic. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 502/2 Some of the Palæozoic insects, though we infer them to have been exopterygotous, were really endopterygotous. Ibid. 503/1 The change from exopterygotism to endopterygotism..by an intermediate period of anapterygotism. 1928G. H. Carpenter Biol. Insects xii. 329 The orders of winged insects—whether exopterygote or endopterygote—are distinguished mainly, as regards the adults, by the characters of their jaws and their wings. 1957Richards & Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Ent. (ed. 9) iii. 255 There is no doubt that the Megaloptera..include some of the most primitive recent Endopterygotes. 1964V. B. Wigglesworth Life of Insects 320 This [sc. Neuroptera] is the first of the ‘endopterygote’ orders or Holometabola. |