Hexapoda

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Pelophila borealis

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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classes: Entognatha - Amyocerata

Name

Circumscriptional name of the taxon under consideration: Hexapoda Latreille 1802. Most often this taxon is named "Insecta" sensu Leach 1815, but it does not fit the original circumscription of Insecta Linnaeus 1758, which is approximatedly the same as Arthropoda.

Insecta: Linnaeus 1758 = Condylopa Latreille 1825 (subequal to Arthropoda)
Insecta: Lamarck 1801 = Pterodicera Latreille 1802 (subequal to Pterygota)
Insecta: Latreille 1802 = Tracheata Haeckel 1866
Insecta: Leach 1815 = Hexapoda Latreille 1802
Insecta: Cuvier 1817 = Atelocerata Heymons 1901
Insecta: Packard 1883 = Dimalata Sharov 1966
Insecta: Kingsley 1894 = Opisthogoneata Pocock 1893
Insecta: Handschin 1958 = Amyocerata Remington 1955
Insecta: Chen 1962 = Pleomerentoma Krausse et Wolff 1919

Overview of extant ordines (32)

Archaeognatha - Blattodea - Coleoptera - Collembola - Dermaptera - Diplura - Diptera - Embiidina - Ephemeroptera - Hemiptera - Hymenoptera - Isoptera - Lepidoptera - Mantodea - Mecoptera - Megaloptera - Neuroptera - Notoptera - Odonata - Orthoptera - Phasmatodea - Phthiraptera - Plecoptera - Protura - Psocoptera - Raphidioptera - Siphonaptera - Strepsiptera - Thysanoptera - Trichoptera - Zoraptera - Zygentoma

Fossil ordines

†Coxoplectoptera ...

References

• Foottit, R.G.; Adler, P.H. (eds.) 2009: Insect biodiversity: science and society. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781405151429
• Gao, Y.; Bu, Y.; Luan, Y.-X. 2008: Phylogenetic relationships of basal hexapods reconstructed from nearly complete 18S and 28S rRNA gene sequences. Zoological science, 25(11): 1139–1145. doi: 10.2108/zsj.25.1139 PDF
• Grimaldi, D.; Engel, M.S. 2005: Evolution of the insects. Cambridge University Press, New York, USA. limited preview on Google books
• Kluge, N.J. 2010: Circumscriptional names of higher taxa in Hexapoda. Bionomina, 1: 15–55. ISSN: 1179-7649 (print edition) ISSN: 1179-7657 (online edition) Preview PDF
• Luan, Y., J.M. Mallatt, R. Xie, Y. Yang, and W. Yin. 2005. The phylogenetic positions of three basal-hexapod groups (Protura, Diplura, and Collembola) based on ribosomal RNA gene sequences. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22(7): 1579-1592.
• Bitsch, C. and J. Bitsch. 2000: The phylogenetic interrelationships of the higher taxa of apterygote hexapods. Zoologica Scripta, 29: 131-156.
• Wheeler, W.C. et al. 2001: The phylogeny of the extant hexapod orders. Cladistics, 17(2): 113–169. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2001.tb00115.x

Vernacular names

Alemannisch: Sechsfießer
български: Шесткраки
català: Hexàpodes
česky: Šestinozí
Deutsch: Sechsfüßer
Ελληνικά: Εξάποδα
English: hexapods
español: hexápodos
français: Hexapodes
한국어: 육각아문(六脚亞門)
Ido: Artikopodo
italiano: Esapodi
magyar: Hatlábúak
македонски: Шестоноги
Nederlands: Zespotigen
日本語: 六脚亜門 (ろっきゃくあもん)
polski: Sześcionogi
português: Hexápodes
русский: Шестиногие
suomi: Kuusijalkaiset
தமிழ்: அறுகாலி (arukaali)
Tiếng Việt: Loài sáu chân
Türkçe: Altı bacaklılar
中文: 六足亞門

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