Pterygota
Appearance
Pterygota | |
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Giant Honey Bee Apis dorsata on Tribulus terrestris (order Hymenoptera) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Cless: | Insecta |
(unranked): | Dicondylia |
Subcless: | Pterygota Lang, 1888 |
Orders | |
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The Pterygota are a subcless o insects that includes the weenged insects. It an aa includes insect orders that are seicontarily weengless (that is, insect groups whase auncestors ance haed wings but that hae lost them as a result o subsequent evolution).[1]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Vincent H. Resh; Ring T. Cardé (4 Apryle 2003). Encyclopedia of Insects. Academic Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-08-054605-6.