A primitive wingless insect of the group Apterygota, which includes the bristletails and springtails.
Example sentencesExamples
In all apterygotes and in mayflies it is bidirectional.
In a current project we concentrate on the basal insects and aim to elucidate the phylogeny among the so-called apterygotes and their relationships to other arthropods using molecular and morphological approaches.
The lateral imprints of the thoracic legs appear too long to have been made by an apterygote, particularly a monuran.
In the past the collembolans, proturans and two other groups; the diplurans and the thysanurans were all grouped together as the apterygotes or the wingless insects.
Your discussion should include descriptions of the life habits, types of metamorphosis and morphological characteristics of the apterygotes, but the main focus should be o evaluating arguments for or against including the apterygotes in the Class Insecta.
Definition of apterygote in US English:
apterygote
nounapˈteriˌɡōt
Entomology
A primitive wingless insect of the group Apterygota, which includes the bristletails and springtails.
Example sentencesExamples
The lateral imprints of the thoracic legs appear too long to have been made by an apterygote, particularly a monuran.
Your discussion should include descriptions of the life habits, types of metamorphosis and morphological characteristics of the apterygotes, but the main focus should be o evaluating arguments for or against including the apterygotes in the Class Insecta.
In a current project we concentrate on the basal insects and aim to elucidate the phylogeny among the so-called apterygotes and their relationships to other arthropods using molecular and morphological approaches.
In the past the collembolans, proturans and two other groups; the diplurans and the thysanurans were all grouped together as the apterygotes or the wingless insects.
In all apterygotes and in mayflies it is bidirectional.