Insect
Of arthropod, Arthropoda and swarm.
Small air-breathing arthropod.
This concept's ID is @1~11170
Wing
Body Part
- thorax
Part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs.
- mentum
A projection below the mouth of certain mollusks that resembles a chin.
Also contains
- beetle
Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the...
- dipterous insect
Insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the...
- neuropteron
Insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins.
- homopterous insect
Insects having membranous forewings and hind wings.
- hymenopterous insect
Insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized...
- bug
Insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show...
- termite
Whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood.
- flea
Any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
- heteropterous insect
True bugs: insects whose forewings are membranous but have leathery tips.
- louse
Wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals.
- thysanuran insect
Primitive wingless insects: bristletail.
- dictyopterous insect
Cockroaches and mantids.
- psocopterous insect
Small soft-bodied insect with chewing mouthparts and either no wings or two...
- ephemerid
Short-lived insect.
- odonate
Large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings.
- orthopterous insect
Any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and...
- mecopteran
Any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera.
- worker
Sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the lar...
- lepidopterous insect
Insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny...
- phasmid
Large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on...
- pupa
An insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between...
- queen
The only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites;...
- trichopterous insect
Caddis fly.
- thysanopter
An insect of the order Thysanoptera.
- louse
Wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds.
- earwig
Any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed...
- clypeus
A shield-like plate on the front of an insect's head.
- bug
General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate.
- stonefly
Primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled...
- air sac
Any of the thin-walled extensions of the tracheae of insects.
- leaf miner
Any of various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf...
- imago
An adult insect produced after metamorphosis.
- holometabolism
Complete metamorphosis in insects.
- social insect
An insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species.
- web spinner
Any of a small order of slender typically tropical insects that nest in colonies in...
- ephemeron
Anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form.
- holometabola
Insects that undergo complete metamorphosis.
- defoliator
An insect that strips the leaves from plants.
- pollinator
An insect that carries pollen from one flower to another.
- gallfly
Any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae...
- collembolan
Any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage...
- proturan
Any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head...