Insects

Insects

Any of numerous usually small arthropod animals of the class Insecta, having an adult stage characterized by three pairs of legs and a body segmented into head, thorax, and abdomen and usually having two pairs of wings.

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Forewing

Animals; Insects

Either of the anterior wings, borne on the mesothorax.

Frons

Animals; Insects

Upper part of the insect face, between and below the antennae and usually carrying the median ocellus or simple eye.

Furca

Animals; Insects

Forked spring or leaping appendage on fourth abdominal segment of Collembola.

Hypopharyax

Animals; Insects

Median lobe in mouth parts, immediately behind the mouth.

Instar

Animals; Insects

The stage in an insect's life history between any two moults. A newly-hatched insect which has not yet moulted is said to be a first-instar nymph or larva. The adult (imago) is the final instar.