Dicondylia

Translingual

Ctenolepisma lineata (order Thysanura)

Baetis tricaudatus, subimago male (subclass Pterygota)

Etymology

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Proper noun

Dicondylia

A taxonomic clade within the class Insecta – all living insects, excluding the primitive Monocondylia.
A taxonomic subclass within the class Insecta – the single order Zygentoma.[1]

Usage notes

The clade basal Dicondylia is monotypic with the order Zygentoma (= Thysanura specifically excluding the families Machilidae and Meinertellidae).

Hypernyms

(subclass): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class[1]

Hyponyms

(clade): basal Dicondylia, Pterygota (subclass) (clades)
(subclass): Zygentoma - sole order[1]

Coordinate terms

(subclass): Archaeognatha, Insecta[1]

References

Insecta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dicondylia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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

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