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    The name Apterygota is sometimes applied to a former subclass of small, agile insects, distinguished from other insects by their lack of wings in the present...
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    historically united with the now-obsolete order Thysanura to form the class Apterygota, but it has since been recognized that the hexapodous condition of these...
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  • as subclasses: wingless insects, known as Apterygota, and winged insects, known as Pterygota. The Apterygota consist of the primitively wingless order...
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    the family. Ovipositors exist not only in winged insects, but also in Apterygota, where the ovipositor has an additional function in gathering the spermatophore...
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    historically treated as subclasses: wingless insects or Apterygota, and winged insects or Pterygota. The Apterygota traditionally consisted of the primitively wingless...
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    such as the family Nicoletiidae. The silverfish, like other species in Apterygota, is wingless. It has long antennae, and moves in a wiggling motion that...
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    Another name used to separate the two groups from winged insects is Apterygota. The name Thysanura, first applied to the group by Pierre André Latreille...
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    This system is found in most arachnids, insects such as silverfish (Apterygota), dragonflies (Paleoptera) and grasshoppers (Exopterygota), and some nematodes...
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    apterous. Insects that are primarily apterous belong to the subclass Apterygota. Apterous is an adjective that means that the insect or organism is wingless...
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  • There are various disparate groups of wingless insects. Apterygota are a subclass of small, agile insects, distinguished from other insects by their lack...
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    was that the taxon formed a notional link between the Pterygota and the Apterygota. This view of the taxon as a link is now totally obsolete, but the phylogeny...
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  • Their later instars have no functional legs in most species. Among the Apterygota, the legs of immature specimens are in effect smaller versions of the...
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    compounds – a tanning process under enzymatic control. In some of the Apterygota, however, at least some of the cross-linking is by disulphide bonds reminiscent...
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    1951 he defended Candidate of Science dissertation on the embryology of Apterygota. Since 1951 he worked at the Paleontological Institute in Moscow, where...
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    namely the Thysanura, Protura, Diplura, and Collembola. Also known as the Apterygota. Subsequently the others have been reclassified as separate from the Insecta...
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  • embryogenesis. Variation in abdominal segment number is considerable. If the Apterygota are considered to be indicative of the ground plan for pterygotes, confusion...
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    the Genus Machilinus (Meinertellidae, Archaeognatha = Microcoryphia, "Apterygota", Insecta) from Mexico". Journal of the New York Entomological Society...
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    Luís F. (1981) Notes et description de Thysanoures du Nouveau Monde (Apterygota: Microcoryphia et Zygentoma), Nouvelle Revue de Entomologie, vol. 11,...
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  • Proceedings of the Xth international Colloquium on Apterygota, České Budějovice 2000: Apterygota at the Beginning of the Third Millennium. Josef Rusek...
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  • species with functional wings. These fossil remains show that the primitive Apterygota, and the ancient winged insects were ametabolous (completely lacking metamorphosis)...
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    wings Dragonfly Aptera ἀ- (a-), not Wingless Apterygotans, now obsolete Apterygota πτερύγιον (pterygion small wing)[citation needed] ἀ- (a-), not Wingless...
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    2020-05-18. Christian, Erhard (2002). "Die primär flügellosen „Urinsekten" (Apterygota)". In Essl, Franz; Rabisch, Wolfgang (eds.). Neobiota in Österreich (PDF)...
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    embryogenesis. Variation in abdominal segment number is considerable. If the Apterygota are considered to be indicative of the ground plan for pterygotes, confusion...
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    Backwell 2009. Caryl 1979. Cardé, Ring T.; Resh, Vincent H. (2009), "Apterygota", Encyclopedia of Insects, Elsevier, p. 38, doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-374144-8...
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  • entomol., 27(1): 15-50. Dallai, R., E. Malatesta & P. Ramellini. 1995. Apterygota: Collembola, Protura, Microcoryphia e Zygentoma (= Thysanura s.l.), Diplura...
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    directed aerial gliding descent—a preflight phenomenon found in some apterygota, a wingless sister taxon to the winged insects. Biologists including Averof...
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  • Motors announced in 2019 Aptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae Apterygota, a subclass of small, wingless insects All pages with titles containing...
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  • Acari, Opiliones, Chernetidae, and spiders. Troglobitic insects include Apterygota such as Campodea and various Collembola. There are many species of beetles...
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  • taxonomy of several orders of insects, the Acarina (mites and ticks), Apterygota (silverfish) and Diptera (flies), around three quarters of which concerned...
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    2022-04-29. Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1948). Insects of Hawaii. Volume 2, Apterygota To Thysanoptera. University of Hawai'i Press. hdl:10125/2641. Polhemus...
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