In 1964, Boris Borisovitsch Rohdendorf proposed a classification in which the Nematocera is split into two suborders, the Archidiptera and the Eudiptera.

All of the taxa included in Eudiptera are also members of the Nematocera, and the latter is the preferred grouping ; both are paraphyletic.

The suborder Neobatrachia is by far the largest group and includes the remaining families of modern frogs, including most common species.

Both the number of families in this later suborder is debated with the number of families being between one and twenty depending on the authority and the number of genera being between nineteen and twenty five.

The blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales ( called Mysticeti ).

The family Balaenopteridae is believed to have diverged from the other families of the suborder Mysticeti as long ago as the middle Oligocene.

The superficial consistency of most beetles ' morphology, in particular their possession of elytra, has long suggested that the Coleoptera are monophyletic, but there is growing evidence that this is unjustified, there being arguments for example, in favour of allocating the current suborder Adephaga their own order, or very likely even more than one.

Eschrichtiidae is a family of baleen whales in the suborder Mysticeti.

It is part of the suborder Ensifera and the only family in the superfamily Tettigonioidea.

The group is treated either as a single family, Alcedinidae, or as a suborder Alcedines containing three families, Alcedinidae ( river kingfishers ), Halcyonidae ( tree kingfishers ), and Cerylidae ( water kingfishers ).

The only extant family of this suborder is Equidae ( whose sole surviving genus is Equus ), comprising the horse, zebra, donkey, onager, and allied species.

It is the sole surviving member of the family Odobenidae, one of three lineages in the suborder Pinnipedia along with true seals ( Phocidae ) and eared seals ( Otariidae ).

* The largest suborder, Mysticeti ( baleen whales ), is characterized by baleen, a sieve-like structure in the upper jaw made of keratin, which it uses to filter plankton from the water.

This is supported by subfossil remains discovered in Madagascar of giant lemurs of suborder Strepsirrhini which became extinct some time after the Malayo-Polynesian settlement of the island.

A Sculpin is a fish that belongs to the order Scorpaeniformes, suborder Cottoidei and superfamily Cottoidea, that contains 11 families, 149 genera, and 756 species.

The suborder Citharinoidei, which contains the families Distichodontidae and Citharinidae, is considered the sister group to the rest of the characins, suborder Characoidei.

Mantophasmatodea is a suborder of carnivorous African insects discovered in 2002, originally considered to be a new order, but since relegated to subordinal status, and comprising the single family Mantophasmatidae.

Dendrobranchiata is a suborder of decapod crustaceans, variously called shrimp or prawns.

There is a great deal of ecological variation within the suborder Dendrobranchiata.

The family is placed in its own suborder, Grylloblattodea, and in its own former order, Grylloblattaria.

However, they were combined in the suborder Epiprocta ( in which Anisoptera is an infraorder ) after it was revealed that the " Anisozygoptera " are a paraphyletic group composed of mostly extinct offshoots of dragonfly evolution.

A cicada ( or ) is an insect of the order Hemiptera, suborder Auchenorrhyncha ( which was formerly included in the now invalid order Homoptera ), in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with large eyes wide apart on the head and usually transparent, well-veined wings.

A dragonfly is an insect belonging to the order Odonata, the suborder Epiprocta or, in the strict sense, the infraorder Anisoptera ( from Greek ανισος anisos, " uneven " + πτερος pteros, " wings ", due the hindwings being broader than the forewing ).

It has been suggested that the order is contained by the Troctomorpha suborder of Psocoptera.

In Diptera, the formation of the haltere during metamorphosis is dependent on the homeotic gene Ultrabithorax ( Ubx ).

Hemiptera is the largest insect order that is hemimetabolous ; the orders with more species all have a pupal stage ( Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Diptera and Hymenoptera ).

The flies ( order Diptera ) include several families of parasitoids, the largest of which is the family Tachinidae, and also smaller families such as Pipunculidae, Conopidae, and others.

Tachinidae is a large and rather variable family of true flies within the insect order Diptera, with more than 8, 200 known species and many more to be discovered.

A maggot is the larva of a fly ( order Diptera ); it is applied in particular to the larvae of Brachyceran flies, such as houseflies, cheese flies, and blowflies, rather than larvae of the Nematocera, such as mosquitoes and Crane flies.

The pollination is carried by insects: Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, and Hymenoptera.

Archidiptera is a suborder of Diptera under an alternative classification based largely on fossil taxa ; it has not gained wide acceptance among non-paleontological dipterists.

Brachycera is a suborder of Diptera.

Orthorrhapha is a circumscriptional name which historically was used for an infraorder of Brachycera, one of the two suborders into which the order Diptera, the flies, are divided.

It is a very large assemblage, exhibiting very diverse habits, with one notable and perhaps surprising exception ; there are no known acalyptrates that are obligate blood-feeders ( hematophagous ), though this is a life history that is common throughout the remaining Diptera.

Calyptratae is a subsection of Schizophora in the insect order Diptera, commonly referred to as the calyptrate muscoids ( or simply calyptrates ).

In contrast, the commonest current use of the term is in the anatomy of the mouthparts of Diptera, particularly those in which the labium forms the bulk of the proboscis, such as in the housefly family.

The Tabanidae are true flies, that is to say, members of the insect order Diptera.

Asiloidea is a very large cosmopolitan superfamily of Diptera.

In flies ( Diptera ), the alula is a lobe of the posterior margin of the wing bounded proximally by the upper calypter, distally by the axillary incision, and anteriorly by the base of the anal vein.

Most beetle larvae have chewing mouthparts, an obvious head capsule which is sclerotized, as well as 3 pairs of well developed thoracic legs that easily distinguish them from Diptera maggots.

However, the fact that the trait is found exclusively in Diptera, to the exclusion of all other groups, is not essential in identifying the trait as a synapomorphy ; rather, this fact makes its determination easier.

A fly ( plural flies ) is any species of insect of the order Diptera, some of which can land on food and transmit bacteria to humans.