Insecta

See also: insecta and insectă

Translingual

Etymology

Latin insectum (“cut up (segmented)”)

Proper noun

Insecta

A taxonomic class within the phylum Arthropoda – the 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
Insecta on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Insecta at the Tree of Life Web Project

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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

Anagrams

ascient, cineast

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