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

1 2 3 4 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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