Arachnida

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Noun1.Arachnida - a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegsArachnida - a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wings
Chelicerata, superclass Chelicerata - spiders; scorpions; horseshoe crabs
arachnid, arachnoid - air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs
order Scorpionida, Scorpionida - true scorpions
Acarina, order Acarina - mites and ticks
class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
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Molecular phylogeny of acariform mites (Acari, Arachnida): Strong conflict between phylogenetic signal and long-branch attraction artifacts.
1 and 2 will consist of 'Bloom' by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, 'Arachnida' by Agnes Locsin, 'Sotto Voce' and 'Reconfigured' by Bam Damian, 'Kinabuhing Mananagat' by Rudy de Dios, 'Romeo and Juliet (Fantasy Overture)' by Sergei Vikulov, 'Reve' by Ernest Mandap, 'Musika't Pag-ibig' by Jonathan Janolo and 'Mahiwagang Biyulin' by Tony Fabella.
Then they consider arthropod pests by orders and families within the classes Insecta, Symphyla, Arachnida, and Malacostraca.
The order Araneae (spiders) is the largest order within Arachnida, and spiders are found in every part of the world, except the Antarctica.
The teams recorded 55 wildlife species on sale in markets surveyed across the country, of which 40 per cent comprised mammals, 39pc birds, 19pc reptiles, while the remaining 2pc belonged to the invertebrates (Arachnida) category.
These preys-taxa were distributed as followed: 55 Insecta, 6 Arachnida, 3 Gastrapoda, 1 Chilopoda and 1 Malacostraca (Tab.1).
Adis (Ed.), Amazonian Arachnida and Myriapoda: Identification keys, to all classes, orders, families, some genera, and lists of known terrestrial species (p.
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