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Uniramia
--Hexapoda 1 (insects)
--Hexapoda 2 (insects)
--Insect orders
----Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths)
----Ephemeroptera (mayflies)
----Hemiptera (bugs, cicadas)
----Hymenoptera (bees, ants, wasps & saw flies)
------Bumblebees
----Coleoptera (beetles)
----Dictyoptera (mantids, cockroaches)
----Diptera (true flies)
----Neuroptera (lacewings, ant lions)
----Orthoptera (crickets, locusts)
----Thysanura (bristletails, silver fish)
----Strepsiptera (stylops)
----Thysanoptera (thrips)
----Odonata (dragonflies, damselflies)
----Trichoptera (caddis flies)
----Siphonaptera (fleas)
----Isoptera (termites)
----Phasmida (stick & leaf insects)
----Dermaptera (earwigs)
----Anoplura/Sipunculata (sucking lice)
----Mallophaga (biting lice, bird lice)
----Psocoptera (book lice)
----Mecoptera (scorpion flies)
----Collembola (springtail)
----Embioptera (web spinners)
----Plecoptera (stone flies)
----Diplura (bristletails)
----Protura
----Zoraptera
----Protura
----Zoraptera
----Zoraptera
Zorotypus, Zoraptera Zoraptera are minute (around 2.5 mm), winged and wingless Insects. With soft, pale-coloured bodies, and biting/chewing mouthparts. They are colonial, and are similar to Psocoptera and Isoptera. They are tropical and very rare. Usually found below bark, in rotten wood or humus. There are about 30 species worldwide. On the left is Zorotypus a Zorapteran.
 
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