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Neomura

Neomura

Neomura, a speculative clade composed of the two domains of life of Archaea and Eukaryota

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insect

insect

Insects (from Latin ', a calque of Greek ['], “cut into sections”), the class within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax, and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae

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odonate

odonate

odonate (a large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings)

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Palaeoptera

Palaeoptera

Palaeoptera, the taxon, a type of insect and arthropod

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Pterygota

Pterygota

Pterygota, a type of insects that includes the winged insects

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Hexapoda

Hexapoda

subphylum Hexapoda, constituting the largest grouping of arthropods and, including the insects as well as three much smaller groups of wingless arthropods: Collembola, Protura, and Diplura

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Eumetazoa

Eumetazoa

Eumetazoa, a clade comprising all major animal groups except sponges, placozoa and several other little known animals

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Bilateria

Bilateria

Bilateria, all animals having a bilateral symmetry, i.e. they have a front and a back end, as well as an upside and downside

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Ecdysozoa

Ecdysozoa

Ecdysozoa, a group of protostome animals, including Arthropoda, Nematoda, and several smaller phyla

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Epiprocta

Epiprocta

Epiprocta Lohmann, 1996, one of the two extant suborders of the Odonata

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eukaryote

eukaryote

eukaryote, an organism whose cells contain complex structures enclosed within membranes

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arthropod

arthropod

An arthropod, the invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and jointed appendages

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What species (a basic unit of biological classification) is a dragonfly (a slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.)?

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