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Table 12.2: Classification of the Orders of the Subphylum
Hexapoda (After Whitfield and Purcell 2013).
Informal group
Entognatha
Order Protura
Order Collembola
Order Diplura
Class Insecta
Apterygota
Order Archeognatha
Order Thysanura
Paleoptera
Order Odonata
Order Ephemeroptera
Polyneoptera
Order Grylloblattodea
Order Mantophasmatodea
Order Embiidina
Order Phasmida
Order Zoraptera
Order Dermaptera
Order Orthoptera
Order Blattodea
Order Mantodea
Order Plecoptera
Paraneoptera
Order Hemiptera
Order Thysanoptera
Order Psocodea
Holometabola
Order Strepsiptera
Order Hymenoptera
Order Megaloptera
Order Neuroptera
Order Raphidioptera
Order Coleoptera
Order Mecoptera
Order Siphonaptera
Order Diptera
Order Lepidoptera
Order Trichoptera
of insects (Mantophasmatodea) was discovered in 2002 in the mountains of
Namibia in Africa (
Klass et al. 2002
), which was surprising because entomologists
thought all insect orders had been detected. However, some now consider this
group to be a suborder in a new insect order that contains grylloblattids, man-
tids, and phasmids, as well as mantophasmids (
Cameron et al. 2006
).
