Back داخليات الأجنحة Arabic داخليات الاجنحه ARZ Endopterygota AST Tam çevrilmə ilə inkişaf edən həşəratlar Azerbaijani Endopterigots Catalan Endopterygota Czech Endopterygota Danish Holometabole Insekten German Endopterigotoj Esperanto Endopterygota Spanish
| Holometabola Temporal range: Molecular clock indicates a possible Mississippian origin[1]
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| Panorpa communis, a scorpionfly (order Mecoptera) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| (unranked): | Eumetabola |
| (unranked): | Holometabola Burmeister, 1835 |
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Endopterygota Sharp, 1898 | |
Holometabola (from Ancient Greek holo- "complete" + metabolḗ "change"), also known as Endopterygota (from endo- "inner" + ptéryg- "wing" + Neo-Latin -ota "-having"), is a supra-ordinal clade of insects within the infraclass Neoptera that go through distinctive larval, pupal, and adult stages. They undergo a radical metamorphosis, with the larval and adult stages differing considerably in their structure and behaviour. This is called holometabolism, or complete metamorphism.
- ^ Wang, Y.-h. et al. Fossil record of stem groups employed in evaluating the chronogram of insects (Arthropoda: Hexapoda). Sci. Rep. 6, 38939; doi:10.1038/srep38939 (2016).