Pterygota

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
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladi: Neoptera – Odonatoptera – Panephemeroptera – †Bojophlebiidae – †Palaeodictyopteroidea

Palaeoptera (= Ephemeroptera + Odonata) hypothesis:
Cladi: Neoptera – Palaeoptera

Metapterygota (= Neoptera + Odonata) hypothesis:
Cladi: Metapterygota – Ephemeroptera

Chiastomyaria (= Neoptera + Ephemeroptera) hypothesis:
Cladi: Chiastomyaria – Odonata

Overview of ordines

Blattodea – Coleoptera – Dermaptera – Diptera – Embioptera – Ephemeroptera – Grylloblattodea – Hemiptera – Hymenoptera – Lepidoptera – Mantodea – Mantophasmatodea – Mecoptera – Megaloptera – Neuroptera – Odonata – Orthoptera – Phasmatodea – Plecoptera – Psocodea – Raphidioptera – Siphonaptera – Strepsiptera – Thysanoptera – Trichoptera – Zoraptera – †Coxoplectoptera – †Diaphanopterodea – †Hypoperlida – †Megasecoptera – †Miomoptera – †Palaeodictyoptera – †Paoliida – †Permopsocida – †Permothemistida – †Skleroptera – †Titanoptera – ...

Name

Pterygota Gegenbaur, 1878

Synonymy

Pterygota Gegenbaur, 1878: 244
Pterygogenea Brauer, 1885: 290

References

Primary references

Brauer, F. 1885. Systematisch-zoologische Studien. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 91: 237–413. BHL. Reference page.
Gegenbaur, C. 1878. Grundriss der vergleichenden Anatomie. Zweite verbesserte Auflage. Leipzig, W. Engelmann. 655 pp. BHL. Reference page.

Additional references

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.
Sroka, P., Staniczek, A.H. & Bechly, G. 2014. Revision of the giant pterygote insect Bojophlebia prokopi Kukalová-Peck, 1985 (Hydropalaeoptera: Bojophlebiidae) from the Carboniferous of the Czech Republic, with the first cladistic analysis of fossil palaeopterous insects. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13(11): 963–982. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2014.987958 . 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 . PDF. Reference page.
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., Whiting, M., Wheeler, Q.D. & Carpenter, J.M. 2001. The phylogeny of the extant hexapod orders. Cladistics 17(2): 113–169. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2001.tb00115.x . Reference page.
Wootton, R.J. 1992: Functional morphology of insect wings. Annual Review of Entomology, 37: 113–140.

Vernacular names

беларуская: Крылатыя насякомыя
български: Крилати
čeština: Křídlatí
Deutsch: Fluginsekten
English: Winged insects
suomi: Siipikantaiset
français: Ptérygote
hrvatski: Krilaši
magyar: Szárnyas rovarok, elsődlegesen szárnyas rovarok
日本語: 有翅昆虫亜綱 (ゆうしこんちゅうあこう)
lietuvių: Sparnuotieji
latviešu: Spārneņi
norsk bokmål: Vingede insekter
polski: Owady uskrzydlone
русский: Крылатые насекомые
srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски: Krilaši
slovenščina: Krilate žuželke
svenska: Bevingade insekter
Türkçe: Kanatlı böcekler
中文: 有翅亞綱

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