Palaeoptera
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The name Palaeoptera has been traditionally applied to those ancestral groups of winged insects that lacked the ability to fold the wings back over the abdomen as characterizes the Neoptera. The Diaph
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Odonata
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Odonata is an order of predatory flying insects that includes the dragonflies and damselflies. The two major groups are distinguished with dragonflies usually being bulkier with large compound eyes to
Palaeoptera
…a paraphyletic assemblage of basal Pterygota, too. As it stands, the relationship of the two living Palaeopteran groups – Ephemeroptera (mayflies) and Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) – to the Neoptera has not yet been resolved; there are three main competing hypotheses with many variations. In two of…
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Coenagrion puella LC0315
Male blue ringtail (Austrolestes annulosus), a damselfly (Zygoptera: Lestidae)
Dragonfly (top) and damselfly (bottom) wing shape and venation