covering is formed. Amongst fossils, trilobites and eurypterida used ecdysis. Ecdysis is part of the whole process of metamorphosis. The different stages...

development of an insect. In an incomplete metamorphosis it comes after the last ecdysis. If the metamorphosis is complete, it comes after emergence from the pupa...

characters, and includes all animals that shed their exoskeleton (see ecdysis). Telford M.J. et al 2008. The evolution of the Ecdysozoa (2008). "The...

Despite being internal, the tracheae of arthropods are shed during moulting (ecdysis). Wasserthal, Lutz T. 1998. Chapter 25: The open hemolymph system of Holometabola...

stages called instars, shedding its 'skin' (epicuticle) at each stage (ecdysis). Finally, it changes into a mature adult with wings. Some insect nymphs...