Eumetabola

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Eumetabola is an unranked clade of Neoptera. Two large unities known as the Eumetabola and Paurometabola are probably from the adelphotaxa of the Neoptera after exclusion of the Plecoptera. The monophyly of these unities appears to be weakly justified.[1]

Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Infraclass:Neoptera
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Eumetabola
Apis dorsata on Tribulus terrestris
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Infraclass: Neoptera
Clade: Eumetabola
Hennig, 1953
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According to a phylogenetic analysis, the Eumetabola clade originated 390–350 million years ago, in the Late Devonian.[2]

Phylogeny

The phylogeny of Eumetabola is shown in the cladogram, using the molecular phylogeny of Wipfler et al. 2019 for the Polyneoptera,[3] Johnson et al. 2018 for the Paraneoptera (where Psocomorpha contains Phthiraptera),[4] and Kjer et al. 2016 for the Holometabola.[5]

Neoptera
Polyneoptera

Zoraptera (angel insects)

Dermaptera (earwigs)

Plecoptera (stoneflies)

Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, katydids)

Grylloblattodea (ice crawlers)

Mantophasmatodea (gladiators)

Phasmatodea (stick insects)

Embioptera (webspinners)

Dictyoptera

Mantodea (mantises)

Blattodea (cockroaches and termites)

Eumetabola
Paraneoptera
Condylognatha

Thysanoptera (thrips)

Hemiptera (true bugs)

Psocodea (barklice inc. lice)

Holometabola

Hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps)

Aparaglossata
Neuropteroidea
Neuropterida

Raphidioptera (snakeflies)

Megaloptera (alderflies and allies)

Neuroptera (lacewings and allies)

Coleopterida

Coleoptera (beetles)

Strepsiptera (twisted-wing parasites)

Panorpida
Amphiesmenoptera

Trichoptera (caddisflies)

Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths)

Antliophora

Diptera (true flies)

Mecoptera (scorpionflies)

Siphonaptera (fleas)

(Endopterygota)

References

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