The Neuroptera and Coleoptera among which campodeiform larvae are common, are less specialised than Lepidoptera. From Wordnik.com. [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference
Some of these caddis-grubs retain the campodeiform condition and do not shelter permanently in cases, as their relations do. From Wordnik.com. [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference
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 subsequent instars are eruciform. From Wordnik.com. [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference
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 quite campodeiform in aspect. From Wordnik.com. [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference
It seems impossible to avoid the conclusion that the active, armoured campodeiform grub differing less from its parent than an eruciform larva differs from its parent, is as a larval type more primitive than the caterpillar or maggot. From Wordnik.com. [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference
The campodeiform type is relatively unusual, but most of the Neuroptera have larvae of this kind, active, armoured creatures with long legs, though devoid of the tail-processes often associated with similar larvae among the Coleoptera. From Wordnik.com. [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference
The larva of Platygaster is at first rather like a small Copepod crustacean, with prominent spiny tail-processes; after a moult this form changes into the legless grub characteristic of the Hymenoptera, among which larvae even approaching the campodeiform type are very exceptional. From Wordnik.com. [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference
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