Category:Insect orders
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Insect
orders
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
(unranked):
Pancrustacea
Subphylum:
Hexapoda
Extant
Monocondylia
Archaeognatha
(jumping bristletails)
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Zygentoma
(silverfish, firebrats)
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Palaeoptera
Ephemeropteroidea
Ephemeroptera
(mayflies)
Odonatoptera
Odonata
(dragonflies, damselflies)
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Polyneoptera
Plecoptera
(stoneflies)
Dermaptera
(earwigs)
Embioptera
(webspinners)
Phasmatodea
(stick and leaf insects)
Orthoptera
(crickets, wetas, grasshoppers, locusts)
Zoraptera
(angel insects)
Notoptera
(Xenonomia)
Grylloblattodea
(ice-crawlers)
Mantophasmatodea
(gladiators)
Dictyoptera
Blattodea
(cockroaches, termites)
Mantodea
(mantises)
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Paraneoptera
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Psocodea
(barklice, lice)
Thysanoptera
(thrips)
Hemiptera
(cicadas, aphids, true bugs)
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Hymenoptera
(sawflies, wasps, ants, bees)
Neuropteroidea
Coleopterida
Strepsiptera
(twisted-winged parasites)
Coleoptera
(beetles)
Neuropterida
Raphidioptera
(snakeflies)
Megaloptera
(alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies)
Neuroptera
(net-winged insects: lacewings, mantidflies, antlions)
Panorpida
(Mecopterida)
Antliophora
Mecoptera
(scorpionflies)
+
Siphonaptera
(fleas)
Diptera
(gnats, mosquitoes, flies)
Amphiesmenoptera
Trichoptera
(caddisflies)
Lepidoptera
(moths, butterflies)
Four most speciose orders are marked in
bold
Italic
are paraphyletic groups
Based on
Sasaki
et al.
(2013)
Extinct
Aethiocarenodea
Blattoptera
(roachoids)
Caloneurodea
Campylopteridae
Carbotriplurida
Coxoplectoptera
Diaphanopterodea
Eoblattodea
Eudiaphanoptera
Geroptera
Glosselytrodea
Heraridea
Hypoperlida
Lapeyriidae
Meganisoptera
(griffinflies)
Megasecoptera
Miomoptera
Palaeodictyoptera
Paoliida
Permoplectoptera
Permothemistida
Protanisoptera
Protelytroptera
Protephemerida
Protorthoptera
Protozygoptera
Syntonoptera
Titanoptera
Triadophlebioptera
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