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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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Pterostigma
Animals; Insects

A small coloured area near the wing-tip of dragonflies, bees, and various other clear-winged insects: also called the stigma.

Punctate
Animals; Insects

Covered with tiny pits or depressions, like the elytra of many beetles and the thoraxes of many hymenopterans.

Pupa
Animals; Insects

In stage in the development of insects when the body of the larva is broken down and turned into the body of an adult.

Pygidium
Animals; Insects

A caudal structure or the terminal body region of various invertebrates.

Radius
Animals; Insects

Third longitudinal vein of wing.

Raptorial
Animals; Insects

Adapted for seizing and grasping prey, like the -front legs of a mantis.

Scavenger
Animals; Insects

An organism that feeds habitually on refuse or carrion.

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