larvalization

noun

1. Conversion into a larva“On the other hand, if we look for the most general character that Aphidococca share with another group with low chromosomal numbers, the Parasita, but not with other Paraneoptera groups, we shall see that the tendency for lower modal numbers within the Paraneoptera correlates with a tendency to larvalization of imaginal structures or neoteny, with reduction of the number of postembryonic stages to”