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Grylloblattodea

Insect Orders

Grylloblattodea is an insect order generally recognized as containing a single living family, Grylloblattidae, the ice crawlers or icebugs, wingless insects adapted to extreme cold on mountaintops and glacier edges that cannot tolerate warmth, with most species dying above about 10 degrees Celsius. Some classifications instead rank Grylloblattodea as a suborder, together with the gladiator insects of Mantophasmatodea, within a combined order Notoptera.

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Classification
Living or Extinct
Yes 1
Taxonomic Rank
Order 2
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Sources
1. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ796470, descriptionView the Source
2. Wikipedia: Notoptera
Taxonomic rank (Wikipedia confirms the entity; rank from slug/structure-wave classification)View the Source
Wikidata: Grylloblattodea
Wikidata Q1185781, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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