A view from the edge of the forest: Recent progress in understanding the relationships of the insect orders

Australian Journal of Entomology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 79-87

  Yeates, David K ^a   Cameron, Stephen L ^a   Trautwein, Michelle ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dictyoptera; Holometabola; Insecta; Palaeoptera; Paraneoptera; Polyneoptera

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; BLATTARIA; COLEOPTERA; DICTYOPTERA; DIPTERA; ENDOPTERYGOTA; EPHEMEROPTERA; GRYLLOBLATTODEA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; ISOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANTOPHASMATODEA; NEOPTERA; NEUROPTERA; ODONATA; PALAEOPTERA; PARANEOPTERA; PHTHIRAPTERA; PSOCOPTERA; STREPSIPTERA; THYSANOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 84861154887     PISSN: 13266756     EISSN: 14406055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.2012.00857.x     Document Type: Review

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