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What does exuvia mean?

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  1. (biology) The remains of an exoskeleton that is left after an insect, crustacean or arachnid has molted.
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With careful study, exuvia can actually be used to identify the species of dragonfly or damselfly that left them behind.
Additionally, presence of exuvia and frass suggest that the moths are emerging late summer or early fall.
These exoskeletons, or exuvia, are being collected from the vegetation growing around wetlands and shallow ponds as part of the park's ecological monitoring program.
We went into the wadi and took lots of photographs and collected lots of exuviae, which is the husk, the larvae case of the dragonfly, and I collected this funny exuvia.
Two days later, we found the shed skin, the exuvia, of a broad-bodied chaser dragonfly beside our small, shallow pond.
Strong cryptogeny: the female, with a fine membranous cuticle, remains enclosed in the exuvia of the second larval instar, which thickens and takes on a horn-like shape.

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