Insect Phylogenetic Tree

Kwik-Key to the Common
Orders of Insecta

Apterygota

• Collembola (hexapod, not an insect)
• Diplura (hexapod, not an insect)
• Protura (hexapod, not an insect)
• Archeognatha
• Zygentoma

Paleoptera

• Ephemeroptera
• Odonata

Polyneoptera

• Blattodea
• Dermaptera
• Embioptera
• Grylloblattodea
• Isoptera
• Mantodea
• Mantophasmatodea
• Orthoptera
• Phasmatodea
• Plecoptera
• Zoraptera

Paraneoptera

• Hemiptera – Heteroptera
• Hemiptera – Homoptera
• Psocodea
• Thysanoptera

Holometabola

• Coleoptera
• Diptera
• Hymenoptera
• Lepidoptera
• Mecoptera
• Megaloptera
• Neuroptera
• Raphidioptera
• Siphonaptera
• Strepsiptera
• Trichoptera