Insecta
Of class and Arthropoda. May also be referred to as Hexapoda, class Hexapoda and class Insecta.
Insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species.
This concept's ID is @1~11169
Animal Order
- Coleoptera
Beetles.
- Diptera
A large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes...
- Lepidoptera
Moths and butterflies.
- Hymenoptera
An order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps;...
- Hemiptera
Plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and...
- Neuroptera
An order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies;...
- Isoptera
Order of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass...
- Orthoptera
Grasshoppers and locusts; crickets.
- Siphonaptera
Fleas.
- Mecoptera
An order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike...
- Anoplura
Sucking lice.
- Phasmida
In some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insec...
- Dictyoptera
In some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches)...
- Psocoptera
An order of insects: includes booklice and bark-lice.
- Odonata
Dragonflies and damselflies.
- Thysanura
Firebrats; silverfish; machilids.
- Mallophaga
Biting lice.
- Ephemeroptera
Mayflies.
- Trichoptera
An order of insects consisting of caddis flies.
- Thysanoptera
Thrips.
- Dermaptera
Earwigs and a few related forms.
- Collembola
Minute wingless arthropods: springtails.
- Protura
Minute wingless arthropods: telsontails.
- Embioptera
Web spinners.
- Plecoptera
Stoneflies.
- Mantophasmatodea
An order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from...
Also contains
- Exopterygota
Subclass of insects characterized by gradual and usually incomplete metamorphosis.