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Definition of Class insecta
1. Noun. Insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species.
Group relationships: Arthropoda, Phylum Arthropoda
Member holonyms: Mantophasmatodea, Order Mantophasmatodea, Mecoptera, Order Mecoptera, Collembola, Order Collembola, Order Protura, Protura, Coleoptera, Order Coleoptera, Embiodea, Embioptera, Order Embiodea, Order Embioptera, Anoplura, Order Anoplura, Mallophaga, Order Mallophaga, Order Siphonaptera, Siphonaptera, Diptera, Order Diptera, Hymenoptera, Order Hymenoptera, Isoptera, Order Isoptera, Order Orthoptera, Orthoptera, Order Phasmatodea, Order Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmida, Exopterygota, Hemimetabola, Subclass Exopterygota, Dictyoptera, Order Dictyoptera, Hemiptera, Order Hemiptera, Corrodentia, Order Corrodentia, Order Psocoptera, Psocoptera, Ephemerida, Ephemeroptera, Order Ephemerida, Order Ephemeroptera, Order Plecoptera, Plecoptera, Neuroptera, Order Neuroptera, Odonata, Order Odonata, Order Trichoptera, Trichoptera, Order Thysanura, Thysanura, Order Thysanoptera, Thysanoptera, Dermaptera, Order Dermaptera, Lepidoptera, Order Lepidoptera
Generic synonyms: Class
Literary usage of Class insecta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"Class INSECTA.] Of Insects. A singularity in the external figure of some animals,
arising from the mode of union of the three great parts of which animals ..."
2. General Zoology by Arthur Sperry Pearse (1917)
"CHAPTER IX PHYLUM ARTHROPODA, class insecta (Continued) Order 11. Hemiptera.—This
order includes the "bugs'.' proper, and no other insects should be called ..."
3. Zoology, Descriptive and Practical by Buel Preston Colton (1903)
"class insecta. Example. — The Grasshopper. The Life of an Animal. — In order to
understand the life of any animal, try to get answers to such questions as ..."
4. The Zoological Miscellany: Being Descriptions of New Or Interesting Animals by William Elford Leach, Richard P. Nodder (1817)
"... On the Characters of the class insecta, and of the Orders composing it.
INSECTA, CHARACTER. Corpus 3-partitum, ë capite ..."
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