insecta

1. Insects;
   About five-sixths of all known animal species (synset 102161923)
   is a type of: class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
   member holonym:

   • 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
   • lepidoptera, order lepidoptera - moths and butterflies
   belongs to: arthropoda, phylum arthropoda - jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
   same as: class hexapoda, class insecta, hexapoda

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