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Holometabola (from
Ancient Gr**** holo- "complete" + metabolḗ "change"), also
known as
Endopterygota (from endo- "inner" + ptéryg- "wing" + Neo-Latin -ota...
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Panorpida or
Mecopterida is a
proposed superorder of
Holometabola. The
conjectured monophyly of the
Panorpida is
historically based on
morphological evidence...
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ecdysis follows the last
immature or
nymphal stage. In
members of the
Holometabola, in
which there is a
pupal stage, the
final ecdysis follows emergence...
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instar undergoes no
further moulting. All
insects of the
Pterygota except Holometabola belong to
hemimetabolous orders:
Hemiptera (scale insects, aphids, whitefly...
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analysis has
shown that
Psocodea could instead be the
sister taxon to
Holometabola,
which would render Paraneoptera as paraphyletic. Here is a
simple cladogram...
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Holometabolism is a
synapomorphic trait of all
insects in the
superorder Holometabola.
Immature stages of
holometabolous insects are very
different from the...
- = "long",
ptera = "wings") is an
order of
insects in the
superorder Holometabola with
about six
hundred species in nine
families worldwide. Mecopterans...
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family Ichneumonidae.
Pimpla species are
idiobiont endoparasitoids of
Holometabola,
often the
pupae of Lepidoptera. For instance, the
common Pimpla rufipes...
- that form the
order Coleoptera (/koʊliːˈɒptərə/), in the
superorder Holometabola.
Their front pair of
wings are
hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing...
- of insects.
Exopterygota are
distinguished from the
Endopterygota (or
Holometabola) by the way
their wings develop.
Endopterygota (meaning
literally "internal...
