Pterygota
Sign in to savePterygota ( ) is a subclass of insects that includes all winged insects and groups which lost them secondarily.
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Pterygota is a major group of insects that includes all insects with wings, as well as some insects that once had wings but lost them over time. This group is important because it encompasses the vast majority of insect species we encounter today, from flies and beetles to butterflies and bees.
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Species
Fluginsekten
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMalvales
- FamilyMalvaceae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations174
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Research
304,706 papers- Pterygota alata (Roxb.) R.Br. Bark Fraction Induced Intrinsic Apoptotic Pathway in 4T1 Cells by Decreasing Bcl-2 and Inducing Bax Expression.Pakistan journal of biological sciences : PJBS · 2021
- A review of preclinical evidence of Cryptolepis nigrescens (Wennberg) L. Joubert. and Bruyns., Prosopsis africana (Guill. and Perr.) Taub. and Pterygota macrocarpa K. Schum. traditionally used to manage tumours in Ghana.
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Pterygota ( ) is a subclass of insects that includes all winged insects and groups which lost them secondarily.
Pterygota group comprises 99.9% of all insects. The orders not included are the Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) and the Zygentoma (silverfishes and firebrats), two primitively wingless insect orders. Unlike Archaeognatha and Zygentoma, the pterygotes do not have styli or vesicles on their abdomen (also absent in some zygentomans), and with the exception of the majority of mayflies, are also missing the median terminal filament which is present in the ancestrally wingless insects.