Hexapoda

Hex`ap´o`da

n. pl.

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(Zool.) The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids.

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Hexapoda - insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species class Hexapoda, class Insecta, Insecta Arthropoda, phylum Arthropoda - jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes Mantophasmatodea, order mantophasmatodea - an order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from the Baltic region Mecoptera, order Mecoptera - an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip Collembola, order Collembola - minute wingless arthropods: springtails order Protura, Protura - minute wingless arthropods: telsontails Coleoptera, order Coleoptera - beetles Embiodea, Embioptera, order Embiodea, order Embioptera - web spinners Anoplura, order Anoplura - sucking lice Mallophaga, order Mallophaga - biting lice order Siphonaptera, Siphonaptera - fleas 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 Hymenoptera, order Hymenoptera - an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc. Isoptera, order Isoptera - order of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass Exopterygota order Orthoptera, Orthoptera - grasshoppers and locusts; crickets order Phasmatodea, order Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmida - in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects Exopterygota, Hemimetabola, subclass Exopterygota - subclass of insects characterized by gradual and usually incomplete metamorphosis 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 Hemiptera, order Hemiptera - plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas) Corrodentia, order Corrodentia, order Psocoptera, Psocoptera - an order of insects: includes booklice and bark-lice Ephemerida, Ephemeroptera, order Ephemerida, order Ephemeroptera - mayflies order Plecoptera, Plecoptera - stoneflies Neuroptera, order Neuroptera - an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies Odonata, order Odonata - dragonflies and damselflies order Trichoptera, Trichoptera - an order of insects consisting of caddis flies order Thysanura, Thysanura - firebrats; silverfish; machilids order Thysanoptera, Thysanoptera - thrips Dermaptera, order Dermaptera - earwigs and a few related forms Lepidoptera, order Lepidoptera - moths and butterflies class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders