- Protura, Collembola, and Diplura.
Unlike Archaeognatha and Zygentoma, the
pterygotes do not have
styli or
vesicles on
their abdomen (also
absent in some zygentomans)...
- Neoptera, peripteros, pterodactyl, pteron, pteropod, pterosaur, pterostigma,
pterygote,
tetrapterous pterid- fern Gr**** πτερίς, πτερίδος (pterís, pterídos) pteridology...
- 630
species in
North America.
Mayflies are an
ancient group of
winged (
pterygote) insects. ****tive
fossil stem
group representatives (e.g. Syntonopteroidea-like...
- the
Apterygota are
considered to be
indicative of the
ground plan for
pterygotes,
confusion reigns:
adult Protura have 12 segments,
Collembola have 6....
- the
history of Earth, and
along with it the
diversity of insects. The
Pterygotes (winged insects)
underwent a
major radiation in the
Carboniferous (356...
- 38.1079S. doi:10.1130/G31182.1. Dudley,
Robert (2002). "Flight and the
Pterygote Insecta". The
Biomechanics of
Insect Flight: Form, function, evolution...
- the Carboniferous, and into the
Permian (approximately 300 Ma), most
pterygotes had post-embryonic
development which included separated nymphal and adult...
-
Retrieved 2008-DEC-15. Trueman, John W.H. [2008]: Tree of Life Web
Project –
Pterygote Higher Relationships.
Retrieved 2008-DEC-15. Trueman, John W.H. & Rowe...
-
surface of the head, and is
typically near the
occipital foremen. In
pterygotes, the
postocciput forms the
extreme posterior,
often U-shaped,
which forms...
-
wings is a
synapomorphy for
pterygote insects, but a
symplesiomorphy for
holometabolous insects.
Absence of
wings in non-
pterygote insects and
other organisms...
