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Pterygota

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Pterygota

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Also known as Pterygote, Pterygotes, Pterygotous, winged insects, flying insect, flying insects, winged insect

Pterygota ( ) is a subclass of insects that includes all winged insects and groups which lost them secondarily.

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Pterygota is a taxon that has been classified at different ranks across various biological databases. In entomology, it is recognized as a subclass of insects within the parent taxon Dicondylia, with common names including pterygotan, Fluginsekten, and Geflügelte Insekten. Conversely, in botanical contexts, Pterygota is identified as a genus within the family Malvaceae, order Malvales, and class Magnoliopsida. The plant species Pterygota forbesii is found in lowland forests below 200 m.

The name Pterygota also refers to a plant species known as Buddha's coconut tree. This plant has been introduced to Cuba, Florida, the Gulf of Guinea Is., Pakistan, Trinidad-Tobago, and the Windward Is. Records from iDigBio indicate collections from the United States, Mexico, and Peru, held by institutions such as UCMP, YPM, NMMNHS, and MO. The taxon is studied by entomology and has an accepted status in the World Register of Marine Species, which lists its habitat as marine, brackish, and freshwater.

Synthesized by Vinony from 44 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, iNaturalist, PubMed, Gbif Occ, Plants of the World, WoRMS, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Species

Fluginsekten

Pterygota

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderMalvales
  5. FamilyMalvaceae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Native toAndaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic
Observations174
Observations recorded2,967

General: Pterygota forbesii is found in lowland forests below 200 m.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
91
With media
47
Family
Malvaceae
Collections
UCMP, YPM, NMMNHS, MO
Recorded in
United States, Mexico, Peru
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Research

304,766 papers

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • Systematics
  • Classification
  • References

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pterygota” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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