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Insecta
Horologice ex summa laeva: Empis livida, Rhinotia hemistictus, Gryllotalpa brachyptera, Vespula germanica, Opodiphthera eucalypti, Harpactorinae
Subdivisiones: Subclasses
Insecta (-orum, n.) (ab insecto, calque(en) a Graeco ἔντομον 'in partes sectum') sunt animalia corpore exosceleto e chitino constituto operta, tripartito (in caput, thorax, et abdomen diviso), tres pares extremitatum articulationibus praeditarum in thorace, oculos compositos, et binas antennas(en) habentia. In taxinomia biologica(en) sunt classis phyli Arthropodorum.
Insecta sunt diversissima animalium grex, plus quam 1 000 000 specierum descriptas comprehendentes, et sunt pro plus quam dimidio omnium orbis terrarum organismorum vivorum.[2][3]
- ↑ Engel, Michael S.; David A. Grimaldi (2004). "New light shed on the oldest insect". Nature 427 (6975): 627–30.
- ↑ Chapman, A. D. (2006). Numbers of living species in Australia and the World. Canberrae: Australian Biological Resources Study. pp. 60pp. ISBN 978-0-642-56850-2.
- ↑ Wilson, E. O.. "Threats to Global Diversity"
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