PTERYGOTA
(bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)

PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
Neoptera
bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects
Infraclass 6,361 subtaxa 17,208 trophisms 5,428 references
Palaeoptera
dragonflies, damselflies and mayflies
Infraclass 27 subtaxa 16 trophisms 80 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Sepsenwol, S. 2014 The zip net: an insect sweep net with removable capture pouch for serial collecting American Entomologist Vol 6 (4): 207-209.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 47,574 images of PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)

This group contains the majority of insects. The adults have two pairs of wings, or, at least, are presumed to have evolved from winged ancestors.

They also have distinct wingless juvenile forms which often look vey different from the adults. Development includes metamorphosis from the juvenile to the adult form.

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