The Exopterygota (Ancient Greek ἔξω (éxō, “outside”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) + Neo-Latin -ota (“having”)), also known as Hemimetabola, are a superorder...

shown in the cladogram. The Endopterygota are distinguished from the Exopterygota by the way in which their wings develop. Endopterygota (literally "internal...

not clear how exactly the neopterans are related among each other. The Exopterygota might be a similar assemblage of rather ancient hemimetabolous insects...

together with the Palaeoptera and Paraneoptera as the Hemimetabola or Exopterygota on the grounds that they have no metamorphosis, the wings gradually developing...

their egg clutches, from predation as well as pathogens. Like other Exopterygota, the leafhoppers undergo direct development from nymph to adult without...

instar, or stadium, and each stage between moults of insects in the Exopterygota is called a nymph: there may be up to 15 nymphal stages. Endopterygota...

Earwigs make up the insect order Dermaptera. With about 2,000 species in 12 families, they are one of the smaller insect orders. Earwigs have characteristic...

Order Phthiraptera, lice, a wingless order under the winged superorder Exopterygota Family Trichogrammatidae, parasitic wasps, some species of which have...

to be more closely related to Endopterygota than to the rest of the Exopterygota. The recent molecular finding that the traditional louse orders Mallophaga...

silverfish (Apterygota), dragonflies (Paleoptera) and grasshoppers (Exopterygota), and some nematodes, crustaceans, and gastropods. In field crickets...

larval stage as legless maggots, for example the Acroceridae. Among the Exopterygota, the legs of larvae tend to resemble those of the adults in general,...

ἐφήμερος (ephemeros about one day long) Short lived winged insects Mayflies Exopterygota ἔξω (exo, external) External wings Insects that undergo incomplete metamorphosis...

fossil taxa are known. The termites were traditionally placed in the Exopterygota, but such an indiscriminate treatment makes that group a paraphyletic...

bunches, rather than singly. The termites were traditionally placed in the Exopterygota, but such an indiscriminate treatment makes that group a paraphyletic...

in the Pennsylvanian Avion locality, Pas-de-Calais, France (Insecta: 'Exopterygota')". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 43 (3): 430–435...

(Diptera: Chironomidae) in Late Eocene Rovno amber from Ukraine (Insecta: 'Exopterygota')". Zootaxa. 3794 (4): 581–586. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3794.4.9. hdl:1956/9879...