A life cycle stage of holometabolous insects in which the organism is a pupa and starts with the larval-pupal apolysis and ends with pupal-adult apolysis. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupa https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/562 ]
Synonyms: pupa stage
Term information
The pupal stage is found only in holometabolous insects, those that undergo a complete metamorphosis, going through four life stages; embryo, larva, pupa and imago
Term relations
- life cycle stage
- immediately preceded by some larval stage
- only in taxon some Endopterygota
- simultaneous with some pupal development
- part of some post-embryonic stage