INSECTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Insecta mean? 

• INSECTA (noun)
  The noun INSECTA has 1 sense:

1. insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species

  Familiarity information: INSECTA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSECTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta

Hypernyms ("Insecta" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Insecta"):

order Phasmatodea; order Phasmida; Phasmatodea; Phasmida (in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects)

Lepidoptera; order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)

Dermaptera; order Dermaptera (earwigs and a few related forms)

order Thysanoptera; Thysanoptera (thrips)

order Thysanura; Thysanura (firebrats; silverfish; machilids)

order Trichoptera; Trichoptera (an order of insects consisting of caddis flies)

Odonata; order Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies)

Neuroptera; order Neuroptera (an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies)

order Plecoptera; Plecoptera (stoneflies)

Ephemerida; Ephemeroptera; order Ephemerida; order Ephemeroptera (mayflies)

Corrodentia; order Corrodentia; order Psocoptera; Psocoptera (an order of insects: includes booklice and bark-lice)

Hemiptera; order Hemiptera (plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas))

Dictyoptera; order Dictyoptera (in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera)

Exopterygota; Hemimetabola; subclass Exopterygota (subclass of insects characterized by gradual and usually incomplete metamorphosis)

order Orthoptera; Orthoptera (grasshoppers and locusts; crickets)

Isoptera; order Isoptera (order of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass Exopterygota)

Hymenoptera; order Hymenoptera (an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc.)

Diptera; order Diptera (a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies)

order Siphonaptera; Siphonaptera (fleas)

Mallophaga; order Mallophaga (biting lice)

Anoplura; order Anoplura (sucking lice)

Embiodea; Embioptera; order Embiodea; order Embioptera (web spinners)

Coleoptera; order Coleoptera (beetles)

order Protura; Protura (minute wingless arthropods: telsontails)

Collembola; order Collembola (minute wingless arthropods: springtails)

Mecoptera; order Mecoptera (an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip)

Mantophasmatodea; order mantophasmatodea (an order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from the Baltic region)

Holonyms ("Insecta" is a member of...):

Arthropoda; phylum Arthropoda (jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes)

 Context examples 

Insects are a class, Insecta, of Arthropoda whose members are characterized by division into three parts: head, thorax, and abdomen.

(Insect, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Mammalia, Reptilia, Gastropoda, Insecta, etc that contains a large number of different sublineages, but have shared characteristics in common (e.g. warm-blooded, fur, six legs etc).

(Class, NCI Thesaurus)