Neoptera
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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.
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
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
- 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
References
Neoptera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Neoptera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Neoptera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Neoptera at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Neoptera at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Neoptera at the Tree of Life Web Project
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248