Arthropoda, phylum Arthropoda - jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes

arthropod - invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin

clypeus - a shield-like plate on the front of an insect's head

wing - a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)

ala - a wing of an insect

ephemeron, ephemera - an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

holometabola, metabola - insects that undergo complete metamorphosis

defoliator - an insect that strips the leaves from plants

pollinator - an insect that carries pollen from one flower to another

gallfly - any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae feed

mecopteran - any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera

collembolan, springtail - any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern; found in soil rich in organic debris or on the surface of snow or water

proturan, telsontail - any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter

beetle - insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings

web spinner - any of a small order of slender typically tropical insects that nest in colonies in silken tunnels that they spin

louse, sucking louse - wingless usually flattened blood-sucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals

bird louse, biting louse, louse - wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds

flea - any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap

dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects - insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing

leaf miner, leaf-miner - any of various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf tissue especially of the family Gracilariidae

hymenopter, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect - insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing

worker - sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae

termite, white ant - whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood

orthopteran, orthopteron, orthopterous insect - any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts

phasmid, phasmid insect - large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insects

dictyopterous insect - cockroaches and mantids

bug - general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate

hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect, bug - insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis

heteropterous insect - true bugs: insects whose forewings are membranous but have leathery tips

homopteran, homopterous insect - insects having membranous forewings and hind wings

psocopterous insect - small soft-bodied insect with chewing mouthparts and either no wings or two pairs

ephemerid, ephemeropteran - short-lived insect

plecopteran, stone fly, stonefly - primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones

neuropteran, neuropteron, neuropterous insect - insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins

odonate - large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings

trichopteran, trichopteron, trichopterous insect - caddis fly

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