Table 1. Generalized staging criteria for pupal development of B. impatiens.
Stage | Staging criteria | |
---|---|---|
Primary | Secondary | |
P0 | White eyed, >7 metasomal segments | First abdominal segment not retracted |
P1 | White eyed, six or seven metasomal segments | Leg segment cylindrical and transparent |
P2 | White-eyed, Leg segments flat, and opaque | |
P3 | Yellow-eyed | Tanned suture on tegula/forewing junction* |
P4 | Peach-eyed | Dotted ommatidia |
P5 | Orange-eyed | Both hexagonal and dotted ommatidia |
P6 | Red-eyed | Hexagonal ommatidia |
P7/7L | Maroon-Brown-eyed | Tanned meso-coxa/mesepisternum suture* |
P8 | Brown-eyed | Hexagons at eye center filled |
P9 | Red tinge on mesosoma | Tanned suture on corner of scutellum |
P10 | Black medial strip on A2 | |
P11 | Broken apical metasomal stripes | Peppering at frontal line |
P12/12L | Complete apical metasomal stripes | Gray antennal scape |
Black setae star to turn orange | ||
P13/13L | Blackening of lateral-basal proboscis | Black antennal scape, tergites grayish-orange |
P14 | Abdomen fully black | Flagellomere grayish orange |
P15 | Antennae fully black | Whole body black |
P16 | Leg twitching | Extended and wrinkled metasoma |
Note:
B. impatiens only.