Monura

fossil insect order

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annotated classification

  • insect diversity
    In insect: Annotated classification

    Order Monura Extinct; similar to modern-day bristletails; caudal filament and appendages; 2 leglike cerci. Subclass Pterygota Winged or secondarily wingless; metamorphosis; adults without pregenital abdominal appendages; adult mandibles (unless greatly modified) articulating with head capsule at 2 points.

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relationship to pterygotes

  • Dipluran (Japygidae)
    In apterygote

    …Archaeognatha), together with the extinct monurans (order Monura). For completeness of discussion, however, and because of the similarities of these primitive hexapods, the proturans, collembolans, and diplurans, as well as orders Zygentoma, Archaeognatha, and Monura, are included in this article.

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