Notoptera

Notoptera
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous-Present
Mantophasma zephyra (Mantophasmatidae)
Member of Grylloblattidae
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Cohort: Polyneoptera
Superorder: Notoptera
Crampton, 1915
Orders & families
  • †Blattogryllidae
  • †Camptoneuritidae
  • †Tillyardembiidae
  • †Geinitziidae
  • Order Grylloblattodea
  • Order Mantophasmatodea
Synonyms

Xenonomia Terry & Whiting, 2005

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

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