Meanings
- not comparableRelating to a hypopygium
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However, diagnostic characters might be unreliable due to intraspecific morphological variation even for this life stage and phenotypic plasticity [38 ] in morphometric ratios and hypopygial structures caused by different temperature regimes and food quality has been observed in several chironomid species [39 ].
2015 September 26, “Exploring Genetic Divergence in a Species-Rich Insect Genus Using 2790 DNA Barcodes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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