单词 | subimago |
释义 | subimagon. Entomology. The penultimate or subadult stage in the development of a mayfly, prior to the final moult but capable of flight. Cf. pseudimago n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Ephemeroptera > family Ephemeridae > member of > stage preceding imago subimago1853 1853 F. Walker List Neuropterous Insects iii. 552 Subimago..abdomen with two interrupted brown stripes, about thrice the length of the thorax. 1897 Daily News 27 July 8/1 The sober-tinted Iron Blue Dun again, is the imperfect form, or sub-imago, of the Jenny Spinner. 1919 R. Fedden Golden Days v. 135 You then have an excellent device for scooping against the current and ladling out any subimago, nymph or freshwater shrimp. 1974 Ann. Rev. Ecol. & Systematics 5 316 The registration of surface drift..allows one to follow the succession of emerging imagines and subimagines. 2005 P. J. Gullan & P. S. Cranston Insects (ed. 3) vi. 142 In the few mayfly groups in which the female mates as a subimago she dies without molting to an imago. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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