class Insecta

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class Insecta - insects; about five-sixths of all known animal speciesclass Hexapoda, Hexapoda, InsectaArthropoda, phylum Arthropoda - jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedesMantophasmatodea, order mantophasmatodea - an order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from the Baltic regionMecoptera, order Mecoptera - an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tipCollembola, order Collembola - minute wingless arthropods: springtailsorder Protura, Protura - minute wingless arthropods: telsontailsColeoptera, order Coleoptera - beetlesEmbiodea, Embioptera, order Embiodea, order Embioptera - web spinnersAnoplura, order Anoplura - sucking liceMallophaga, order Mallophaga - biting liceorder Siphonaptera, Siphonaptera - fleasDiptera, 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 fliesHymenoptera, 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 Exopterygotaorder Orthoptera, Orthoptera - grasshoppers and locusts; cricketsorder Phasmatodea, order Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmida - in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insectsExopterygota, Hemimetabola, subclass Exopterygota - subclass of insects characterized by gradual and usually incomplete metamorphosisDictyoptera, 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 OrthopteraHemiptera, 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-liceEphemerida, Ephemeroptera, order Ephemerida, order Ephemeroptera - mayfliesorder Plecoptera, Plecoptera - stonefliesNeuroptera, order Neuroptera - an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongefliesOdonata, order Odonata - dragonflies and damselfliesorder Trichoptera, Trichoptera - an order of insects consisting of caddis fliesorder Thysanura, Thysanura - firebrats; silverfish; machilidsorder Thysanoptera, Thysanoptera - thripsDermaptera, order Dermaptera - earwigs and a few related formsLepidoptera, order Lepidoptera - moths and butterfliesclass - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders