Notoptera

Notoptera
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous-Present
Mantophasma zephyra (Mantophasmatidae)
Member of Grylloblattidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Cohort: Polyneoptera
Clade: Notoptera
Crampton, 1915
Subgroups & families
  • †Camptoneuritidae
  • †Tillyardembiidae
  • †Geinitziidae
  • Grylloblattodea
    • †Aristovia
    • †Blattogryllidae
    • †Plesioblattogryllidae
    • †Zygogrylloblatta
    • Grylloblattidae (ice-crawlers)
  • Mantophasmatodea

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Synonyms

Xenonomia Terry & Whiting, 2005

Notoptera, also known as Xenonomia, is an order of insects belonging to Polyneoptera. It contains two living suborders, Mantophasmatidae (gladiators) native to Southern Africa, and Grylloblattidae (ice crawlers) native to cold montane environments in the Northern Hemisphere. Both are wingless.

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