Holometabola

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “complete”) + μεταβολή (metabolḗ, “change”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Holometabola

1. A taxonomic superorder within the class Insecta – many of the most common insects.

Synonyms

• Endopterygota

Hypernyms

• (superorder): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass

Hyponyms

• (superorder): Coleoptera (beetles), Diptera (mosquitos, gnats, true flies), Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps), Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths), Mecoptera (scorpion flies, hangingflies, scorpionflies, snowflies), Siphonaptera (fleas), Strepsiptera (parasitic insects, twisted-winged parasites, twisted-wing parasites, strepsipterans), Trichoptera (caddisflies) - orders

Coordinate terms

• (superorder): Parametabola - clade

References

• Endopterygota on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Endopterygota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Endopterygota on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Endopterygota at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Holometabola at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248