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adj. [Gr. heteros, different; idios, personal](ARTHROPODA: Insecta)Pertaining to larvae with a mesoseries of crochets bearing a well developed median series of hooks flanked on each end by smaller or rudimentary crochets; see homoideus.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.