The Differentiation Centre Inducing the Development from Larval to Adult Leg in <i>Pieris brassicae</i> (Lepidoptera)

Abstract

ABSTRACT It is generally supposed that the imaginal bud of the leg in Lepidoptera, which Bodenstein (1935, 1937) reported to be visible in the second segment during the last larval instar of Vanessa urticae, develops to produce the adult leg by histogenesis.