English

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Holopneustic Hymenopteran sawfly larva, the dark spots on the flanks showing the sites of the spiracles

Etymology

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From ὅλος (hólos, entire, whole) and πνευστικός (pneustikós).

Adjective

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holopneustic (not comparable)

  1. (arthropodology) in tracheal systems, properly: having all ten pairs of spiracles functional, as occurs in the caterpillar larvae of some Hymenoptera. Loosely applied also to insects (properly termed hemipneustic) in which most, but not all, spiracles are functional.
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