ptero-, pter-, -ptera, -pteron, -pteryx, -ptery, -pterous

The study or description of the arrangement of feathers.

A “Chinese dinosaur wing” from Early Cretaceous China. Its name is based on Greek “sinai” and Latin “sinae”, an oriental people, Chinese. This fossil was found in ancient lake sediments in Liaoning Province, northeastern China. Named by Chinese geologists Ji Qiang and Ji Shu’an in 1996.

Fleas, a large order of snail, sclerotized (hardening of a tissue), wingless insects with bloodsucking mouth-parts and strong jumping legs.

More than 800 species have been described of these ectoparasites on birds and mammals.

An order of insects consisting of the candis flies.