Holometabola

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Holometabola (noun; Greek holos, whole; metabole, change): Dominant superorder of insects, distributed worldwide, that includes the vast majority of insect families, genera and species with complete metamorphosis and wing pads formed by invagination; in some classifications Endopterygota.