part_of physiological process of malaria vector deposition of the new cuticle expansion of cuticle Formation of pharate cuticle starts during the later stages of dissolution of the pupal cuticle. Seventeen hours after larval-pupal ecdysis small 3-layered plates are deposited just above the apical membrane of the epidermal cells, which bears minute microvilli at this stage. Addition of material at the edges of the plate leads to the formation of a continuous layer of outer epicuticle over the epidermal cells. By the pupal-adult ecdysis there are four lamellae. IDOMAL:0002167 IDOMAL:0002167 idomal_namespace