Developmental Variation of Indian Thermophilic Variety of Scuttle Fly Megaselia (Megaselia) scalaris (Loew, 1866) (Diptera: Phoridae) on Different Substrates

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Stages	Avg. hours; (mean ± SE)	Cumulative; avg. days	Avg. length (in mm); (mean ± SE)	Avg. width (in mm); (mean ± SE)	Avg. biomass (in mm^3); (mean ± SE)
Eggs	10 ± 2	10 hrs	0.1080 ± 0.00261	0.0360 ± 0.00870	0.0000 ± 0.00420
1st instar larvae	48 ± 3	2 days, 10 hrs	0.7418 ± 0.06347	0.2472 ± 0.04711	0.0515 ± 0.02511
2nd instar larvae	60 ± 2	4 days, 22 hrs	1.9514 ± 0.18684	0.6504 ± 0.06224	0.7356 ± 0.18508
3rd instar larvae	118 ± 2	9 days, 20 hrs	3.0870 ± 0.09394	1.0298 ± 0.03123	2.6355 ± 0.23566
Pupae	132 ± 4	15 days, 8 hrs	2.7095 ± 0.09074	0.9590 ± 0.02441	2.0204 ± 0.19972