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Orthopteroidea (disused)

Insecta

Taxonomy
Orthopteroidea was named as an order. It is extant.

It was reranked as the superorder Orthopteroidea by Sharov (1968); it was misspelled as Orthopterodea by Wappler (2001).

It was assigned to Polyneoptera by Sharov (1968); and to Insecta by Wappler (2001).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1968Orthopteroidea Sharov
2001Orthopterodea Wappler p. 89

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
superorderOrthopteroidea
superorderOrthopteroidea

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004
Collections
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