BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Endopterygota (insects with wings developing internally)
Further Information
| Notes (MWS) | These are the most highly-evolved groups of insects. They have wingless juvenile forms (larvae, eg maggots, catepillars) which look very different from the adults. Development from the juvenile to the adult form (metamorphosis) includes a comparatively featureless intermediate stage (the pupa). The internal body structure of the juvenile is largely broken down in the pupa before being rebuilt to form the adult insect. |
Subtaxa
| Rank | Taxon |  |
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| Order | COLEOPTERA (beetles) | 520 | 2047 | 1536 | 55 | 752 |
| Order | DIPTERA (two-winged flies) | 607 | 2454 | 4616 | 326 | 595 |
| Order | HYMENOPTERA (bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps) | 251 | 1123 | 711 | 13 | 308 |
| Order | LEPIDOPTERA (butterflies and moths) | 640 | 5159 | 823 | 149 | 503 |
| Order | MECOPTERA (scorpion flies) | 2 | 4 | 22 | 3 | 3 |
| Order | NEUROPTERA (lacewings) | 16 | 57 | 40 | 6 | |
| Order | RAPHIDIOPTERA (snake flies) | 3 | 5 | 23 | 3 | |
| Order | SIPHONAPTERA (fleas) | 6 | 4 | 14 | 101 | 7 |
| Order | STREPSIPTERA (stylopids) | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | |
| Order | TRICHOPTERA (caddis flies) | 15 | 254 | 49 | 21 | 13 |
Suggested Literature
BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk)
has 450 general literature references to Endopterygota (insects with wings developing internally)
Endopterygota may also be covered by literature listed under:
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BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
ANIMALIA (animals) |
ARTHROPODA (arthropods) |
INSECTA (insects) |
BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk)
has 12362 feeding and other relationships of Endopterygota (insects with wings developing internally)
