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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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Claval commissure

Animals; Insects

Junction of hemelytra along clavus in middle of dorsum, posterior to scutellum in Heteroptera.

Clavus

Animals; Insects

Parallel-sided and sharply pointed anal area of hemelytron.

Hemelytra

Animals; Insects

One of the basally thickened fore wings of Hemiptera.

Hemimetabolous

Animals; Insects

Having an incomplete metamorphosis, with no pupal stage in the life history.

Hindleg

Animals; Insects

A back leg.

Hindwing

Animals; Insects

Either of the posterior wings, borne on the metathorax.

Holocyclic

Animals; Insects

Life cycle of aphid species with sexual reproduction on winter host and no migration to a summer host plant.

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