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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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Cornicle
Animals; Insects

One of the pair of small tubular outgrowths on the hind end of the aphid abdomen.

Trochanter
Animals; Insects

The second segment of the leg, between coxa and femur: often very small and easily overlooked.

Trochantin
Animals; Insects

Free sclerotized remnant located at the base of the leg, providing a second point of pleural articulation with the coxa.

Costa (c)
Animals; Insects

The first longitudinal vein of the wing, usually running along the anterior margin.

Compound eye
Animals; Insects

Eye made up of an aggregation of separate visual elements, known as ommatidia, each of which corresponds to a single facet of the cornea.

Tibia
Animals; Insects

The forth leg segment between the femur and the tarsus.

Trachea
Animals; Insects

One of the minute tubes which permeate the insect body and carry gases to and from the various organs etc. They open to the air at the spiracles.

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