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What does eruciform mean?

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Adjective
  1. Shaped like a caterpillar.
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The eruciform larvae bear 2 pairs of prolegs on the fifth and sixth abdominal segments apart from 3 pairs of thoracic legs.
For reasons which we will not pause here to discuss, we have always regarded the eruciform type of larva as the highest.
In all the remaining orders of the Endopterygota the larva is eruciform or vermiform.
The larvae are eruciform and apodous meaning they look like a caterpillar with no legs.
Both lepidopteran and symphytan larvae have eruciform body shapes.
Most significant is the precedence of the eruciform by the campodeiform type.

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