- 45% to 60% of all
known living species are
holometabolan insects.
Juveniles and
adult forms of
holometabolan insects often occupy different ecological...
- as butterflies, flies, fleas, bees, ants, and beetles. The
earliest holometabolan fossils date from the Carboniferous. The
Holometabola are sometimes...
- trap air
bubbles under the
elytra for use
while diving.
Beetles are
holometabolans,
which means that they
undergo complete metamorphosis, with a series...
-
numerous superorders to
signify the
close relationships of
certain holometabolan groups. The
Mecoptera (scorpionflies) were
formerly included here too...
- also used in
medicine in
debridement to
clean wounds.
Dipterans are
holometabolans,
insects that
undergo radical metamorphosis. They
belong to the Mecopterida...
-
suitable for chewing, and lack the
various adaptations found in most
other holometabolan insect groups. They have four wings,
usually similar in size and shape...
- superorder, with an
unranked Neuropterida being a part of them.
Within the
holometabolans, the
closest living relatives of
Neuropterida are the beetles. Two suborders...
- superorder, with an
unranked Neuropterida being a part of them.
Within the
holometabolans, the
closest living relatives of the
neuropteridan clade are the beetles...
-
Retrieved 2021-08-18. "Comparative
transcriptomics of
hemimetabolan and
holometabolan metamorphosis". ResearchGate.
Retrieved 2021-08-17. Bonkowski, Michael;...
-
drinking (figs 22-23 in). This
pupal form is an
ancestral character of
holometabolan insects. In
other orders, it
occurs in
including Neuropterida, Mecoptera...
