Definition of Palaeoptera. Meaning of Palaeoptera. Synonyms of Palaeoptera

- The name Palaeoptera (from Gr**** παλαιός (palaiós 'old') + πτερόν (pterón 'wing')) has been traditionally applied to those ancestral groups of winged...
- This is in contrast with the more basal orders of winged insects (the "Palaeoptera" ****emblage), which are unable to flex their wings in this way. The taxon...
- of rather ancient hemimetabolous insects among the Neoptera like the Palaeoptera are among insects as a whole. The holometabolous Endopterygota seem to...
- of ancient winged insects, placed in the probably paraphyletic group Palaeoptera. The dragonflies and damselflies (which are placed in the subgroup Odonata)...
- any other insect orders. They were formerly grouped together with the Palaeoptera and Paraneoptera as the Hemimetabola or Exopterygota on the grounds that...
- Ephemeroptera. This order is part of an ancient group of insects termed the Palaeoptera, which also contains dragonflies and damselflies. Over 3,000 species...
- Palaeoptera...
- from within the Dicondylia, alongside the Zygentoma. The Pterygota (Palaeoptera and Neoptera) are winged and have hardened plates on the outside of their...
- being a plesiomorphic trait. These two orders belong to the infraclass Palaeoptera however, which is not included in Neoptera. As opposed to Neoptera, they...
- related to mayflies and several extinct orders in a group called the Palaeoptera, but this grouping might be paraphyletic. What they do share with mayflies...