Plecoptera

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλέκω (plékō, “plait, braid”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).

Proper noun

Plecoptera

1. A taxonomic order within the class Insecta – stoneflies.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Polyneoptera - superorder; Anartioptera - cohort; Polyplecoptera - magnorder; Plecopterida - superorder

Hyponyms

• (order): Antarctoperlaria, Arctoperlaria - suborders

References

• Plecoptera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Plecoptera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Plecoptera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Plecoptera at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Plecoptera at the Tree of Life Web Project
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248