Insecta

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Hymenoptera

[edit] Taxonavigation

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladi: "basal Insecta" - Dicondylia
[list of cladi adapted from Grimaldi & Engel (2005: 147, table 4.1)]

[edit] Overview of extant ordines

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

[edit] Name

Insecta Linnaeus, 1758

[edit] Synonyms

• Ectognatha

[edit] References

• Boudreaux H. B. Arthropod phylogeny with special reference to insects John Willey & sons, New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto. 320 pp., 1979.
• Grimaldi, D.; Engel, M.S. 2005: Evolution of the insects. Cambridge University Press, New York, USA. limited preview on Google books
• Kluge, N.Ju.; Modern Systematics of Insects. Part I. Principles of Systematics of Living Organisms and General System of Insects, with Classification of Primary Wingless and Paleopterous Insects - S.-Petersburg, Lan', 2000, 333 pp.
• Phylogeny of extant hexapods
• NP Kristensen - The Insects of Australia, 1991 - Melbourne University Press
• Rasnitsyn, A.P.; Quicke D.L.J. (eds.) 2002: History of insects. Dordrecht: Kluwer. [1]
• Zrzavý, J. 2008: Four chapters about the monophyly of insect 'orders': a review of recent phylogenetic contributions. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 48: 217-232. PDF

[edit] Vernacular Names

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