Review Article
The Evolution of Novelty in Conserved Gene Families
Table 1
Decoupling between species number and genome acceleration rates in holometabolous insects.
| Order | Approximate number of described species |
| Diptera | 150 000 | Mecoptera | 600 | Siphonaptera | 1750 | Trichoptera | 7000 | Lepidoptera | 120 000 |
| Total mecopterida | 279 350 species |
| Coleoptera | 350 000 | Strepsiptera | 600 | Hymenoptera | 115 000 | Neuroptera | 6000 | Raphidioptera | 210 | Megaloptera | 300 |
| Total nonmecopterida | 472 110 species |
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