protura in English
noun
1
an order of minute white wingless insects with slender bodies. They lack eyes and antennae, using the first pair of legs as sensory organs.
Hexapoda (Insecta sensu lato) includes four groups: Protura , Collembola, Diplura, and Insecta sensu stricto (with the latter containing Microcoryphia or Archeognatha, Zygentoma, and the pterygote insects).
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1. Other articles where Anamorphosis is discussed: apterygote: Body: The abdomen of Protura undergoes Anamorphosis: in the first and second instars it has 9 segments, the third 10, and the rest 12
2. Anamorphosis (anamorphic growth) A developmental phenomenon in some Protura and Chilopoda in which the young do not possess the full, adult complement of body segments and legs on hatching; these are developed successively in later stages, after moulting.