Neoptera
Translingual
Etymology
From Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”) and πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).
Proper noun
Neoptera
- Winged insects that can flex their wings over their abdomens
- A taxonomic infraclass within the clade Metapterygota.
- A taxonomic infraclass within the subclass Pterygota.[1]
Usage notes
- There is likely to be some alteration in the immediate hypernym and hyponyms of this new taxon.
Hypernyms
- (infraclass in Metapterygota): Animalia - kingdom; Eumetazoa - subkingdom; Bilateria, Nephrozoa, Protostomia, Ecdysozoa - clades; Arthropoda - phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade
- (infraclass in Pterygota): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass[1]
Hyponyms
- (infraclass in Metapterygota): Hemipterodea, Endopterygota, Blattodea, Mantodea, Isoptera, Zoraptera, Grylloblattodea, Dermaptera, Plecoptera, Orthoptera, Phasmida, Embioptera, Mantophasmatodea - orders
- (infraclass in Pterygota): Holometabola, Neuropterida, Paraneoptera, Polyneoptera - superorders[1]
- Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Mecoptera, Siphonaptera, Strepsiptera, Trichoptera; Megaloptera, Neuroptera, Raphidioptera; Hemiptera, Psocodea, Thysanoptera; Blattodea, Dermaptera, Embioptera, Grylloblattodea, Mantodea, Mantophasmatodea, Orthoptera, Phasmida, Plecoptera, Zoraptera - orders[1]
References
- Neoptera at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Neoptera on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Neoptera at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521
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