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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Arculus

Animals; Insects

In adult Odonata, an arch-shaped vein connecting radius and median near base of wing, forming an elongate triangle between them.

Stigma

Animals; Insects

Small, thickened, and coloured area near the wing-tip of dragonflies, bees, and various other clear-winged insects: also called the pterostigma.

Stria

Animals; Insects

Groove running across or along the body: applied especially to the grooves on beetle elytra.

Striate

Animals; Insects

Marked with grooves running across or along the body.

Apterygote

Animals; Insects

Any member of the Apterygota -primitively wingless insects (i.e. insects which have never developed wings during their evolutionary history) in modern classifications this includes the Thysanura, but ...