Hypermetamorphosis
As hypermetamorphosis a form which is ontogenetic development refers to the in the morphological characteristics during the individual development of an animal change several times fundamentally. So it is a development with multiple metamorphoses . It occurs mainly in insects and other invertebrates that colonize different habitats during different larval stages . Hypermetamorphosis is particularly common in temporary parasites , as these, in addition to the parasitic form, usually develop a stage of spread and the adult form. Well-known cases are, for example, oil beetles , catchers and ore wasps .
In entomology , animals with hypermetamorphosis are sometimes summarized as hypermetabola . Accordingly, this is not a family relationship, but an ecological grouping that is exclusively related to this characteristic.
literature
- Bernhard Klausnitzer (2008): On the importance of larvae for taxonomy, systematics and phylogenetics of the holometabola. Communications of the German Society for General and Applied Entomology 16: 79-86.
- ↑ Bernhard Klausnitzer (2005): Observations on the way of life of Meloe proscarabaeus (Coleoptera, Meloidae). Gredleriana 5: 209-216.
- ↑ Friedrich Moritz Brauer (1869): Description of the history of transformation of the Mantispa styriaca Poda and considerations about the so-called hypermetamorphosis Fabre. Negotiations of the Imperial and Royal Zoological and Botanical Society Vienna 19: 831-840.
- ↑ Martha S. Hunter & James B. Woolley (2001): Evolution and behavioral ecology of heteronomous Aphelinid parasitoids. Annual Revue of Entomology 46: 251-290.