NOMEN: Pterygota Gegenbaur 1878 [C. Gegenbaur. Grundriss der vergleichenden Anatomie. – Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1878: 1-655]
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Gegenbaur
1878):
Ephemeroptera (= Ephemera + "Chloe")
+ Plecoptera (= Perla) + Odonata (=
Libellula + Agrion + Aeschna) + Copeognatha
(= Psocina = Psocus + Troctes) + Embioptera
(= Embida) + Thysanoptera (=
"Thysanopoda", gen. Thrips) + Isoptera (=
Termitida) + Mecaptera (= Panorpina) + Rhaphidioptera (=
Rhaphidia) + Meganeuroptera (= "gen. Sialis")
+ Birostrata (= Hemerobida) + Trichoptera (=
Phryganida) + Strepsiptera + Neoblattariae (= Blatta) +
Raptoriae (= Mantis) + Saltatoria +
Dermatoptera (= Forficula) + Coleoptera De
Geer 1774 + Hymenoptera + Auchenorrhyncha (= Cicadina) +
Plantisuga (= Aphis + Chermes + Coccus) + Heteroptera
+ Pseudorhynchota (= Pediculina) + Diptera
(= Nemocera + Brachycera + Pupipara) + Aphaniptera
+ Lepidoptera 
JUNIOR
CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:
= Pterygogenea Brauer 1885
= Eupleomerentoma Krausse & Wolff
1919
= Pterygotia Pearce
1936
= Pterentoma Chen 1958
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Pediculus/f=Scarabaeus/g (sine Lepisma; incl. Ephemera)
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Scarabaeona
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the
oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.
Systematic position of Pterygota:
| modern phylogenetic classification (Kluge02000):00000 |
classification by Hennig01953:00000 |
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| Hexapoda Entognatha Protura Collembola Diplura Amyocerata Triplura Microcoryphia Zygentoma Pterygota |
Hexapoda Entognatha Protura Collembola Diplura Amyocerata Microcoryphia Dicondylia Zygentoma Pterygota |
Hexapoda Apterygota Protura Collembola Diplura Triplura Pterygota |
Hexapoda Ellipura Protura Collembola Pleomerentoma Diplura Triplura Pterygota |
Hexapoda Protura Protura Holomerentoma Collembola Diplura Triplura Pterygota |
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Classifications of Pterygota:
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| Pterygota Ephemeroptera Metapterygota Odonata Neoptera Polyneoptera Paraneoprtera Metabola |
Pterygota Odonata Chiastomyaria Ephemeroptera Neoptera Polyneoptera Paraneoprtera Metabola |
Pterygota Palaeoptera Ephemeroptera Odonata Neoptera Polyneoptera Paraneoprtera Metabola |
Pterygota Odonata Scarabaeus/fg Ephemeroptera Paraneoprtera Metabola Polyneoptera |
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COMMENT. The taxon Pterygota unites winged and secondarily wingless insects. Before the name Pterygota introduced, for a taxon initing winged insects, following names were suggested: Alata Retzuis 1783, Pterophora Clairville 1798, Pterodicera Latreille 1802, Metabolia Leach 1815, Ptilota (Aristoteles) MacLeay 1821, Emptera Amyot 1848, Insecta sensu Latreille 1810 & Lamarck 1801-1835 (non Insecta Linnaeus 1758). However, originally taxa under all these names did not include a secondarily wingless insect taxon Pseudorhynchota (= Parasita); Alata and Pterophora besides this, did not include another secondarily wingless insect taxon Aphaniptera (= Pulex).