Insecta

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

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: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

Anagrams

ascient, cineast

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