Hemimetabola

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Noun1.Hemimetabola - subclass of insects characterized by gradual and usually incomplete metamorphosis
class Hexapoda, class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta - insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species
class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
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americana was in the subgroup of Hemimetabola, and this subgroup was significantly different from the subgroup of Holometabola (Fig.
En Hexapoda se incluyen dos capitulos que tratan los "Collembola" y "Protura y Diplura"; un capitulo sobre Insecta Apterygota: "Archaeognatha y Zygentoma"; y 15 capitulos destinados a discutir y describir los grupos de Insecta Hemimetabola que incluyen a "Ephemeroptera", "Odonata", "Plecoptera", "Psocoptera", "Homoptera: (Fulgoroidea, Cicadoidea, Membracoidea, Cercopoidea, Aphidoidea, Aleyrodidae, Psylloidea y Coccoidea)", "Isoptera", "Thysanoptera", "Orthoptera", "Dermaptera", "Zoraptera", "Embioptera" y "Hemiptera: Lygaeidae, Pentatomidae, Reduviidae y Enicocephalomorpha".
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