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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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Proboscis
Animals; Insects

Name given to various kinds of sucking mouths in which some of the mouth-parts are drawn out to form tubes.

Prognathous
Animals; Insects

Having a more or less horizontal head, with the mouth-parts at the front.

Proleg
Animals; Insects

Hollow, paired, non-segmented outgrowth of abdominal segments of holometabolous larvae, usually used in locomotion.

Pronotum
Animals; Insects

The dorsal sclerite of the 1st thoracic segment.

Sclerotized
Animals; Insects

Hardened especially by the formation of sclerotin: an insoluble tanned protein permeating and stiffening the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.

Adventive
Animals; Insects

Not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalised

Amphibious
Animals; Insects

Able to live both on land and in water.

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