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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Cells

Animals; Insects

An area of the wing bounded by a number of veins. A cell is closed if it is completely surrounded by veins and open if it is bounded partly by the wing margin.

Tarsi

Animals; Insects

An insect's foot: primitively a single segment beyond the tibia, but usually consisting of several subdivisions or segments in most living insects.

Cerci

Animals; Insects

(singular: Cercus) The paired appendages, often very long, which spring from the tip of the abdomen in many insects.

Carina

Animals; Insects

A ridge or keel.

Subimago

Animals; Insects

First adult instar of the first imaginal instar of mayflies.

Castes

Animals; Insects

Groups of individuals that become irreversibly behaviorally distinct at some point prior to reproductive maturity. One of three or more distinct forms which make up the population among social ...