WoRMS name details
Tetraconata
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Dohle, W. (2001). Are the insects terrestrial crustaceans? A discussion of some new facts and arguments and the proposal of the proper name "Tetraconata" for the monophyletic unit Crustacea + Hexapoda. <em>Annales de la Société entomologique de France.</em> 37(1-2): 85-103. [details]
Status Hexapods are now accepted as derived from within the crustaceans. Pancrustacea and Tetraconata have been proposed as...
Status Hexapods are now accepted as derived from within the crustaceans. Pancrustacea and Tetraconata have been proposed as alternative names for this expanded concept of Crustacea plus Hexapoda. In WoRMS, Crustacea is used as the accepted name (even though is a a paraphyletic grouping), being the oldest, most widely used and best established name. [details]
WoRMS (2026). Tetraconata. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1598179 on 2026-02-21
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Nomenclature
original description
Dohle, W. (2001). Are the insects terrestrial crustaceans? A discussion of some new facts and arguments and the proposal of the proper name "Tetraconata" for the monophyletic unit Crustacea + Hexapoda. <em>Annales de la Société entomologique de France.</em> 37(1-2): 85-103. [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Thorp, J. H.; Rogers, D. C. (2019). Keys to Palearctic Fauna. Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates. Volume IV. Academic Press, 920 pp. [details]
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Status Hexapods are now accepted as derived from within the crustaceans. Pancrustacea and Tetraconata have been proposed as alternative names for this expanded concept of Crustacea plus Hexapoda. In WoRMS, Crustacea is used as the accepted name (even though is a a paraphyletic grouping), being the oldest, most widely used and best established name. [details]
