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adj. - Shaped like a bristletail of a genus of wingless elongated insects

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  • The Neuroptera and Coleoptera among which campodeiform larvae are common, are less specialised than Lepidoptera,
  • Some of these caddis-grubs retain the campodeiform condition and do not shelter permanently in cases, as their relations do.
  • A fact of much importance in the transformations of beetles as pointed out by Brauer (1869) is that in a few families, the first larval instar is campodeiform, while the...
  • It is of interest to note that in the earlier stages of some caddises lately described and figured by A.J. Siltala (1907), the legs are relatively very long, and the larva is...
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