Exopterygota
(earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)

Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
DERMAPTERA
earwigs
Order 3 subtaxa 5 trophisms 16 references
DICTYOPTERA
cockroaches
Order 4 subtaxa 9 trophisms 13 references
HEMIPTERA
bugs
Order 620 subtaxa 2,877 trophisms 323 references
ORTHOPTERA
grasshoppers and crickets
Order 16 subtaxa 28 trophisms 47 references
PHASMATODEA
stick insects
Order 1 subtaxa 4 references
PHTHIRAPTERA
sucking lice, louse
Order 13 subtaxa 28 trophisms 10 references
PLECOPTERA
stoneflies
Order 1 subtaxa 1 trophisms 6 references
LEUCTRIDAE
needle flies
Family 1 subtaxa 1 references
PSOCOPTERA
booklice and barklice or barkflies
Order 3 subtaxa 14 trophisms 11 references
THYSANOPTERA
thrips
Order 149 subtaxa 718 trophisms 4 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
Division Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 2,249 images of Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)

These insects have wingless juvenile forms (eg nymphs) which often look fairly similar to the adults, albeit with wings reduced or absent. Development from the juvenile to the adult form (metamorphosis) proceeds by a series of stages (instars) which (in the winged species) have increasingly developed wings leading to the fully-winged adult.

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