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holometaboly - complete metamorphosis in insects

insect - small air-breathing arthropod

metabolism, metamorphosis - the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals

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The consequence of these profound, developmental changes was that holometaboly immediately provided larval-feeding and adult-reproductive adult instars access to very different habitats that often were deployed in a seasonal or other spatiotemporally exclusive manner--thus allowing survival of both during mutually unfavorable conditions.

Among candidate taxa representing early, Pennsylvanian occurrences of holometaboly, Metropator and Fatjanoptera are probably most notable (Hennig, 1969; Stys and Soldfin, 1980).

It is clear any potential benefits of holometaboly that would have resulted in large-scale diversification patterns were not realized during the Pennsylvanian or Permian, but rather were delayed to the Middle to Late Triassic (Labandeira, 2005).

Evidence for an earliest late carboniferous divergence time and the early larval ecology and diversification of major Holometabola lineages

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