Talk:Apterygota
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[edit]I'm trying to find out what Aptera is. It used to be an order. Is it definitively obsolete? Is it disputed? Now there's just a disambiguation page to the car company, the Greek island, and some species that have aptera as their specific epithet. It used to redirect to here, but there's nothing here about the apparently-obsolete order. --Dan Wylie-Sears 2 (talk) 18:35, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Phylogeny mono or poly
[edit]This article says: "....While the first three groups formed a monophyletic group, the Entognatha..." However when we go to the article on Entognatha we find that "...The orders are not closely related, and so Entognatha is considered a polyphyletic group..." Ammimajus (talk) 19:22, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
Ametabola
[edit]Ametabola is currently a redirect to Apterygota, but as far as I can tell, "ametabola" is also a latin-based general term for lack of metamorphosis in other groups (spiders, crustaceans etc.)
There was also some confusion with ametabolism → cryptobiosis marked as a synonym (probably from the French-language faux-ami amétabole) for this term, but I've tried to fix that.
Should ametabola be changed to the more general term instead the specific insect group which shows this characteristic? — OttoMäkelä (talk) 14:49, 13 May 2012 (UTC)