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Insecta

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See also: insecta and insectă

Translingual

Etymology

Latin insectum (“cut up (segmented)”)

Proper noun

Insecta

A taxonomic class within the phylum Arthropoda – all insects.^[1]

Hypernyms

(class): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum^[1]

Hyponyms

(class): Archaeognatha, Dicondylia, Pterygota (winged insects) – subclasses; Apterygota (wingless insects) – (paraphyletic subclass)^[1]

Coordinate terms

(class): Collembola, Diplura, Protura^[1]

References

Insecta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Insecta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Insecta on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Insecta at the Tree of Life Web Project

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI

Anagrams

ascient, cineast

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