Clade for ARTHROPODA: UNIRAMIA: HEXAPODA: PTERYGOTA
PTERYGOTA (the winged insects; condensed and modified from Tree of Life)
=== Ephemeroptera (mayflies) ^ (Paleopteran ^ | | orders) | |== Odonata (dragonflies, damselflies) v | <<==| | | ===== Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, ^ | | | katydids,etc.) | | | | | E | |==== Dermaptera (earwigs) | X | | | O | |==== Phasmatodea (walking sticks, | (Orthopteroid P | | leaf insects) | orders) T | | | E | | ====== Isoptera (termites) | R | | | | Y | |====|===== Mantodea (mantids) | G | | | | O ===| ====== Blattaria (cockroaches) v T | A | === Psocoptera (book lice) ^ | | =======| | | | | === Phthiraptera (lice) | | | ===| | (Hemipteroid | | | |========= Thysanoptera (thrips) | orders) | | | | | | ===| ========== Hemiptera (bugs, cicadas, | | | whiteflies, aphids, etc.) v v | | ===== Megaloptera (dobsonflies and fishflies) ^ | | | | ===|==== Raphidioptera (snakeflies) E | | | N | ===| ===== Neuroptera (lacewings, antlions, etc.) D | | | O | | ======== Coleoptera (beetles) P | | T ==| ======== Hymenoptera (wasps, bees, ants, sawflies) E | | R | | == Trichoptera (caddisflies) Y | | ===| G | | | == Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) O ===| | T ===| == Mecoptera (scorpionflies, hangingflies) A | | | ===|= Siphonaptera (fleas) | | | == Diptera (flies) v
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