puparium
/pjuːˈpɛːrɪəm
/noun (plural puparia /pjuːˈpɛːrɪə/) Entomology
1The hardened last larval skin which encloses the pupa in some insects, especially higher diptera.When maggots have completed their development they convert their last larval skin into a puparium, a hardened shell within which the pupa develops....
- Adult males emerge from their puparia and fly off to inseminate a female through the brood canal opening in her cephalothorax.
- Parasitized fly puparia were shipped from the rearing laboratory to Kauai, Hawaii, where the puparia were placed in 30 x 30 x 30 cm wood and screen cages containing water and undiluted honey.
1.1A pupa enclosed in a puparium.I also found a couple black tenebrionid beetles hiding under debris and the empty puparium of a fly....
- Adult female parasites lay an egg on the fly pupa within the puparium.
- Whereas natives must feed to develop their eggs, T. zealandicus wasps have eggs when they emerge from the fly puparium as adult females.
Origin
Early 19th century: modern Latin, from pupa, on the pattern of words such as herbarium.