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primitively wingless insect orders.
Unlike Archaeognatha and Zygentoma, the
pterygotes do not have
styli or
vesicles on
their abdomen (also
absent in some zygentomans)...
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wings is a
synapomorphy for
pterygote insects, but a
symplesiomorphy for
holometabolous insects.
Absence of
wings in non-
pterygote insects and
other organisms...
- 38.1079S. doi:10.1130/G31182.1. Dudley,
Robert (2002). "Flight and the
Pterygote Insecta". The
Biomechanics of
Insect Flight: Form, function, evolution...
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Retrieved 2008-DEC-15. Trueman, John W.H. [2008]: Tree of Life Web
Project –
Pterygote Higher Relationships.
Retrieved 2008-DEC-15. Trueman, John W.H. & Rowe...
- Web Project.
Retrieved 15
December 2008. Trueman, John W. H. (2008). "
Pterygote Higher Relationships". Tree of Life Web Project.
Retrieved 15 December...
- (2004)
suggested that the lack of
aerial vertebrate predators allowed pterygote insects to
evolve to
maximum sizes during the
Carboniferous and Permian...
- 181R. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3113.2003.00210.x. Trueman, John W. H. (2008). "
Pterygote Higher Relationships". Tree of Life Web Project.
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species in
North America.
Mayflies are an
ancient group of
winged (
pterygote) insects. ****tive
fossil stem
group representatives (e.g. Syntonopteroidea-like...
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throughout their lives, with
several ****ually
mature instars,
unlike the
pterygote insects. They are
relatively slow growing, and
lifespans of four to up...
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Bechly 2004
suggested that the lack of
aerial vertebrate predators allowed pterygote insects to
evolve to
maximum sizes during the
Carboniferous and Permian...
