imagoes in English
noun
1
the final and fully developed adult stage of an insect, typically winged.
After a third larval stage they pupate in the nest material and emerge as imagos after the fledglings have left the nest.
2
an unconscious, idealized mental image of someone, especially a parent, that influences a person's behavior.
Lacan's elaboration of the Jungian concept of the imago seems instructive here.
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1. In some colonies, besides normal alates, a high proportion of smaller, short-winged, but otherwise normally constituted imagoes were encountered.