Nymph (biology)
As nymphs young animals of various arthropods are referred to, which, unlike larvae already externally very similar, the adult stage. Nymphs can be found for example in hemimetabolic insects, where they differ from the Imagines including through incompletely developed wings and / or genitals.
Even with arachnids, especially at the spiders and mites, the nymph is occurring normally Juvenilform. In winged insects is often only from the first fully developed stage with trained wing buds, usually after the third molt, spoken by a nymph. Previous stages are referred to as Pronymphe. In the latest stages of mites protonymphs be called.