Definition of insecta Insecta
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| insecta - insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species | ||
| 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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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary š
- insecta (n. pl.)
One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of tracheae, opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See Insect, n. - insecta (n.)
In a more restricted sense, the Hexapoda alone. See Hexapoda. - insecta (n.)
In the most general sense, the Hexapoda, Myriapoda, and Arachnoidea, combined.
