Eumetabola

Eumetabola
Apis dorsata on Tribulus terrestris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Infraclass: Neoptera
(unranked): Eumetabola
Hennig, 1953
Superorders

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]

According to a phylogenetic analysis, the Eumetabola clade originated 390–350 million years ago, in the Late Devonian.[2]

  1. ^ Ax, Peter (2000). "Paurometabola — Eumetabola". Multicellular Animals. pp. 282–284. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-10396-8_74. ISBN 978-3-642-08681-6.
  2. ^ Wang, Yan-hui; Engel, Michael S.; Rafael, José A.; Wu, Hao-yang; Rédei, Dávid; Xie, Qiang; Wang, Gang; Liu, Xiao-guang; Bu, Wen-jun (2016). "Fossil record of stem groups employed in evaluating the chronogram of insects (Arthropoda: Hexapoda)". Scientific Reports. 6 (1): 38939. Bibcode:2016NatSR...638939W. doi:10.1038/srep38939. PMC 5154178. PMID 27958352.

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