FURTHER STUDIES ON THE BIOLOGY OFPYRRHARCTIA(ISIA)ISABELLA(LEPIDOPTERA: ARCTIIDAE): III. THE RELATION BETWEEN HEAD CAPSULE WIDTH AND NUMBER OF INSTARS
- 1 March 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 111 (3) , 323-326
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent111323-3
Abstract
Head capsule widths of laboratory-reared and mature field-collected larvae ofP.isabellawere measured. The number of larval instars varied from 7 to 10, yet in all larvae studied, average size and increment in the successive instars were the same for instars 1 to 3. In the latter instars, there was an inverse relationship between size of increment and prospective number of instars. Insects which completed 10 instars were only a little larger than those maturing after only 7 instars. These data fail to support Dyar’s rule.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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