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Distinction from Insects

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It can be easily determined from the Hexapod taxonomy that entognaths represent the outgroup to the insects. What factors justify their being excluded from the Insecta as opposed to the first-branching clade within them? I am not an expert, but from the distinguishing characters listed at Insect, I can only guess that by the picture here it appears that they must lack antennae and/or compound eyes? I am reluctant to generalize from the species to the whole group, so can someone who actually knows verify/update the article?Dhicks3 (talk) 23:58, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is an awesome question. I have as of yet seen no explanation of why the Insecta were renamed Hexapoda. There is a hint that the Hexapoda are not a clade (this artcile meantions something about the Collembola, but I haven't found any source), but ti is presented as such; I can only conclude that for the Hexapoda to be a clade it has to include some crustacean grouip which it would be odd to call 'insects'. But I have seen no mention of what that would be.2.80.243.240 (talk) 20:05, 6 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ametabolous

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Maybe the use of ametabolous here is correct. But the link is definitely not, because it redirects to a subtaxon to Insecta. --Ettrig (talk) 10:47, 22 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]