adultoid reproductive

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adultoid reproductive also primary reproductive, nymphoid reproductive, ergatoid reproductive: (Arthropoda: Insecta) In higher termites, a replacement reproductive following the disappearance of the primary reproductive, that is an imaginal already present, or a nymph reared to an imago stage and morphologically indistinguishable from the primary.