Insecta
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Translingual
Etymology
Latin insectum (“cut up (segmented)”)
Proper noun
Insecta
- A taxonomic class within the phylum Arthropoda – all insects.
Hypernyms
- (class): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum - phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum
Hyponyms
- (class): Archaeognatha, Dicondylia, Pterygota (winged insects) - subclasses; Apterygota (wingless insects) (paraphyletic subclass)
Coordinate terms
- (class): Collembola, Diplura, Protura
References
Insecta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Insecta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Insecta on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Insecta at the Tree of Life Web Project
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248