Hypermetamorphosis

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Hypermetamorphosis

Hypermetamorphosis is a kind of complete metamorphosis in which the different larva

Larva

A larva is a young form of animal with indirect developmental biology, going through or undergoing metamorphosis .The larva can look completely different from the adult form, for example, a caterpillar differs from a butterfly....
l instar

Instar

An instar is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, between each ecdysis , until sexual maturity is reached. Arthropods must shed the exoskeleton in order to grow or assume a new form....
s represent two or more different forms of larva. As the larva molts

Ecdysis

Ecdysis is the molting of the cuticula in arthropods and related groups . Since the cuticula of these animals is also the skeletal support of the body and is inelastic, it is shed during growth and a new, larger covering is formed....
its morphology can change from that of a campodeiform larva to scarabaeiform (grublike) or to vermiform (maggotlike). Some of these instars are very active, while instars closer to final pupation become less active, in some cases.

It is exhibited by certain parasitoid

Parasitoid

A parasitoid is an organism that spends a significant portion of its biological life cycle attached to or within a single host organism which it ultimately kills in the process....
insect

Insect

Insects are the biggest class of arthropods and the only ones with wings. They are the most diverse group of animals on the planet. They are most diverse at the equator and their diversity declines toward the poles....
s, notably the beetle

Beetle

Beetles are the group of insects with the largest number of known species. They are placed in the order Coleoptera , which contains more described species than in any other order in the animal, constituting about 25% of all known life-forms....
families Meloidae and Ripiphoridae

Ripiphoridae

The family Ripiphoridae is a cosmopolitan group of beetles commonly known as wedge-shaped beetles containing some 450 species. They are one of the most unusual beetle families, in that they are parasitoids; different groups within the family attack different hosts, but most are associated with bees or Vespidae, while some others are as...
, the fly

Fly

True flies are insects of the Order Diptera , possessing a single pair of insect wing on the mesothorax and a pair of halteres, derived from the hind wings, on the metathorax....
family Acroceridae

Acroceridae

Acroceridae is a small family of odd looking flies most closely related to Nemestrinidae. There are about 520 species in 50 genera. They are characterized by a humpbacked appearance and a small head, sometimes with a long proboscis for nectar....
, the parasitic wasp

Parasitic wasp

The term Parasitoid wasp refers to a large evolutionary grade of hymenopteran Superfamily, mainly in the Apocrita. They are primarily parasitoids of other animals, mostly other arthropods....
family Eucharitidae

Eucharitidae

The Eucharitidae are a specialized group of ant parasitoids within the Chalcidoidea. There are 53 genera and >470 species worldwide, mostly in the tropics; very few genera are shared between the Old World and New World....
, and the order Strepsiptera

Strepsiptera

The Strepsiptera are an order of insects with nine families making up about 600 species. The early stage larvae and the short-lived adult males are free-living but most of their life is spent as endoparasites in other insects such as bees, wasps, leafhoppers, silverfish, and cockroaches....
. Hypermetamorphosis can also refer to a mammalian/primate psychological condition where there is excessive and indiscriminate reaction to visual stimulus.

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