Eumetabola is an unranked clade of Neoptera. According to a phylogenetic analysis, the Eumetabola clade originated 390–350 million years ago, in the Late Devonian.
Phylogeny The phylogeny of Eumetabola is shown in the cladogram, using the molecular phylogeny of Wipfler et al. 2019 for the Polyneoptera, Johnson et al. 2018 for the Paraneoptera (where Psocomorpha contains Phthiraptera), and Kjer et al. 2016 for the Holometabola.
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Eumetabola Hennig 1953 insecta.bio.spbu.ru Grimaldi, D.; Engel, M. S. 2005: Evolution of the insects. Cambridge University Press, New York. limited preview on Google books "The Earliest known Holometabolous insects"