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The chronology of the intra-pupal development in Peckia intermutans and Peckia lambens was described based on one thousand, one hundred and twenty-five pupae, being two hundred and seventy of P. intermutans and eight hundred and fifty-five of P. lambens. The pupae were fixed in Carnoy's solution for forty-eighty hours at intervals of three hours to complete the first twenty-four hours and after six hours until the emergence of the first adults. Two moments were observed during the pupation process, the first one was larval-pupal apolysis which is the process of separating the last larval cuticle from the epidermis pre-pupae. The second one involved the following phases: (a) the Crytocephalic pupa; (b) the Phanerocephalic pupa and (c) the Pharate adult, the longest phase of the whole development.
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Ana Maria is a teacher of Biology at the public Brasilia teaching since 1992. She received a MsC degree in Zoology from the University of Brasilia in 2014 and Ms degree in Art from the University of Brasilia in 2006, too. She received the title of specialist in forensic biosciences in 2012 from the Catholic University of Goiás/Brazil.
