cryptocephalic pupa

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cryptocephalic pupa: (Arthropoda: Insecta) In Diptera, a pupal stage after the larval-pupal apolysis in which marked changes of form appear through evagination of the head without molting, then proceeds to a phanerocephalic pupa.