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Neoptera  
Taxonomic Serial No.: 563890

 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Infraclass  
  Synonym(s): Endopterygota
 
    Exopterygota
 
  Common Name(s): modern, wing-folding insects [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial    
  Latest Record Review: 2004    
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  -- Animal, animals, animaux  
    PhylumArthropoda  -- arthropodes, arthropods, Artrópode  
       SubphylumHexapoda  -- hexapods  
          ClassInsecta  -- hexapoda, insectes, insects, inseto  
             SubclassPterygota  -- insects ailés, winged insects  
                InfraclassNeoptera  -- modern, wing-folding insects  
    Direct Children:  
                   Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758 -- beetles, besouro, coléoptères 
                   Order Dermaptera De Geer, 1773 -- earwigs, lacrainha, tesourinha 
                   Order Dictyoptera   
                   Order Diptera  -- gnats, mosca, mosquito, mosquitoes, true flies 
                   Order Embiidina Hagen, 1862 -- web-spinners, webspinners 
                   Order Grylloblattodea  -- grylloblattids, rock crawlers 
                   Order Hemiptera Linnaeus, 1758 -- hemipterans, true bugs 
                   Order Hymenoptera  -- abelha, ants, bees, formiga, vespa, wasps 
                   Order Isoptera Brullé, 1832 -- cupim, termites 
                   Order Lepidoptera  -- Borboleta, butterflies, Mariposa, moths, papillons, papillons de nuit 
                   Order Mantophasmatodea Zompro, Klass, Kristensen and Adis, 2002 -- African rock crawlers, gladiator-bugs, gladiators, heelwalkers 
                   Order Mecoptera  -- hangingflies, scorpion flies, scorpionflies, snowflies 
                   Order Orthoptera  -- crickets, criquet-locustes, gafanhoto, grasshoppers, grilo, katydids, locustes, locusts, sauterelles 
                   Order Phasmatodea Jacobson and Bianchi, 1902  
                   Order Phthiraptera Haeckel, 1896 -- biting lice, chewing lice, sucking lice 
                   Order Plecoptera  -- plécoptères, stoneflies 
                   Order Psocoptera  -- bark lice, book lice, piolho de livro, psócidos, psocids, psocóptero 
                   Order Siphonaptera  -- fleas, pulga 
                   Order Strepsiptera Kirby, 1813 -- estrepsítero, parasitic insects, twisted-wing parasites, twisted-winged parasites 
                   Order Thysanoptera Haliday, 1836 -- thrips, trips 
                   Order Trichoptera  -- caddisflies, phryganes, porte-bois, tricóptero 
                   Order Zoraptera Silvestri, 1913 -- zorapterans, zoráptero 
                   Superorder Neuropterida   
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Richard C. Brusca  
  Notes: Adjunct Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721   
  Reference for: Neoptera   
       
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  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Brusca, Richard C., and Gary J. Brusca  
  Publication Date: 2002   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Invertebrates, Second Edition   
  Page(s): xx + 936   
  Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc.   
  Publication Place: Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-87893-097-3   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Neoptera, modern, wing-folding insects   
       

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Tue Feb 9 2010 10:58:45 MST