Definition of class insecta Class insecta
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| class insecta - insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species | ||
| Insecta, class Insecta, Hexapoda, class Hexapoda | ||
| class elegance in dress or behavior; "she has a lot of class" | ||
| arthropoda, phylum arthropoda jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes | ||
| mantophasmatodea, order mantophasmatodea an order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from the Baltic region | ||
| mecoptera, order mecoptera an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip | ||
| collembola, order collembola minute wingless arthropods: springtails | ||
| order protura, protura minute wingless arthropods: telsontails | ||
| coleoptera, order coleoptera beetles | ||
| embiodea, embioptera, order embiodea, order embioptera web spinners | ||
| anoplura, order anoplura sucking lice | ||
| mallophaga, order mallophaga biting lice | ||
| order siphonaptera, siphonaptera fleas | ||
| diptera, order diptera a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies | ||
| hymenoptera, order hymenoptera an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc. | ||
| isoptera, order isoptera order of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass Exopterygota | ||
| order orthoptera, orthoptera grasshoppers and locusts; crickets | ||
| order phasmatodea, order phasmida, phasmatodea, phasmida in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects | ||
| exopterygota, hemimetabola, subclass exopterygota subclass of insects characterized by gradual and usually incomplete metamorphosis | ||
| dictyoptera, order dictyoptera in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera | ||
| hemiptera, order hemiptera plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas) | ||
| corrodentia, order corrodentia, order psocoptera, psocoptera an order of insects: includes booklice and bark-lice | ||
| ephemerida, ephemeroptera, order ephemerida, order ephemeroptera mayflies | ||
| order plecoptera, plecoptera stoneflies | ||
| neuroptera, order neuroptera an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies | ||
| odonata, order odonata dragonflies and damselflies | ||
| order trichoptera, trichoptera an order of insects consisting of caddis flies | ||
| order thysanura, thysanura firebrats; silverfish; machilids | ||
| order thysanoptera, thysanoptera thrips | ||
| dermaptera, order dermaptera earwigs and a few related forms | ||
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