Thysanoptera
Translingual
Etymology
From Ancient Greek θύσανος (thúsanos, “fringe”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).
Proper noun
Thysanoptera
- A taxonomic order within the class Insecta – thrips; tiny narrow-winged insects that fly using fringes of long setae rather than membranes.
Hypernyms
- (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Condylognatha – superorder
Hyponyms
- (order): Terebrantia, Tubulifera – suborders
References
- Thrips on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Thysanoptera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Thysanoptera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- 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