Wing

• wing

  A movable organ for flying (one of a pair).

• ala

  A wing of an insect.

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...