• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      It is not a “sister” group because some crustaceans are more related to insects than to other crustaceans; check the family trees here. The accurate way to say this is that Hexapoda is clade within Pancrustacea, and that “crustaceans” is a paraphyletic group composed of all Pancrustacea minus the ones belonging to Hexapoda.