Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordines: Blattodea – Coleoptera – Dermaptera – Diptera – Embiidina – Ephemeroptera – Hemiptera – Hymenoptera – Lepidoptera – Mantodea – Mecoptera – Megaloptera – Neuroptera – Notoptera – Odonata – Orthoptera – Phasmatodea – Plecoptera – Psocodea – Raphidioptera – Siphonaptera – Strepsiptera – Thysanoptera – Trichoptera – Zoraptera – †Coxoplectoptera – †Permopsocida – †Skleroptera – †Titanoptera – ...

Genera incertae sedis: †Strudiella

Name

Pterygota Brauer, 1885

References

• Brauer, F. 1885. Systematisch-zoologische Studien. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 91: 237-413. Reference page. 
• Grimaldi, D. & Engel, M.S. 2005. Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press, New York, USA. ISBN 978-0-521-82149-0. limited preview on Google Books. Reference page. 
• Koçak, A.Ö.; M.Kemal 2008: Report on the “Entomofauna of Old World” 1- Index of the recorded species of the Pterygot Insects of Old World (Turkey excluded) Cesa News 38: 2–54, 1 fig. PDF
• Koçak, A.Ö.; M.Kemal 2009: Report on the “Entomofauna of Old World” 2- Index of the recorded species of the Pterygot Insects in the Continent Africa Cesa News 44: 1–57, 7 figs. PDF
• Koçak, A.Ö.; M.Kemal 2010: Results of the Entomofauna of the World based upon info-system of the Cesa. Cent. ent. Stud., Priamus Suppl. 18: 1-3186, 2 figs, 1 map PDF
• Prokop, J. & Nel, A. 2011. New middle Permian palaeopteran insects from Lodève basin in southern France (Ephemeroptera, Diaphanopterodea, Megasecoptera). ZooKeys 130: 41–55. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.130.1311 . Reference page. 
• Staniczek, A.H.; Bechly, G.; Godunko, R.J. 2011: Coxoplectoptera, a new fossil order of Palaeoptera (Arthropoda: Insecta), with comments on the phylogeny of the stem group of mayflies (Ephemeroptera). Insect systematics & evolution, 42 (2): 101–138. DOI: 10.1163/187631211X578406
• Toms, R.B. 2007: Rooting the phylogenetic tree for winged insects: independent adaptations to terrestrial life. African invertebrates, 48 (1): 203–211. PDF
• Wheeler, W.C., M. Whiting, Q.D. Wheeler, and J.M. Carpenter. 2001: The phylogeny of the extant hexapod orders. Cladistics, 17: 113–169.
• Wootton, R.J. 1992: Functional morphology of insect wings. Annual Review of Entomology, 37: 113–140.

Vernacular names

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