Paraneoptera or Acercaria is a superorder of insects which includes lice, thrips, and hemipterans, the true bugs. It also includes the extinct order Permopsocida, known from fossils dating from the Ea
Eumetabola is an unranked clade of Neoptera. According to a phylogenetic analysis, the Eumetabola clade originated 390–350 million years ago, in the Late Devonian.