Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
Annu Rev Entomol. 2013;58:585-607. doi: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120811-153536.
The classification of insects has attempted to most effectively communicate information about this hyperdiverse lineage of life and, not surprisingly, has had a considerably rich historical development. This history can be coarsely segregated into four periods: the Pre-Linnean era, the first century spanning Linnaeus's Systema Naturae to Darwin's On the Origin of Species, the Darwinian era up to the Cladistic Revolution, and the Hennigian era leading to today. The major events of each of these episodes are briefly summarized and some of the more notable researchers highlighted, along with their influence on our current understanding of insect relationships and how this is reflected in the current classification of the Hexapoda.
昆虫分类学一直致力于以最有效的方式传达有关这一高度多样化的生物谱系的信息，因此毫不奇怪，它有着丰富的历史发展。这段历史可以粗略地分为四个时期：林奈之前的时代、跨越林奈的《自然系统》到达尔文的《物种起源》的第一个世纪、达尔文时代到分支系统学革命，以及到今天的亨尼希时代。简要总结了每个时期的主要事件，并突出了一些更著名的研究人员，以及他们对我们当前昆虫关系的理解的影响，以及这如何反映在六足动物的当前分类中。
