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Articles relating to insects, pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum.Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae.
Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects is a series of books produced by the Royal Entomological Society (RES). The aim of the Handbooks is to provide illustrated identification keys to the insects of Britain, together with concise morphological, biological and distributional information.
Insect cooking oil, insect butter and fatty alcohols can be made from such insects as the superworm (Zophobas morio). [199] Insect species including the black soldier fly or the housefly in their maggot forms, and beetle larvae such as mealworms , can be processed and used as feed for farmed animals including chicken, fish and pigs. [ 200 ]
Despite this key, however, Linnaeus grouped insects together that shared other affinities. His genus Coccus , containing the scale insects , he placed among the 4-winged Hemiptera, along with aphids and other plant-attacking insects, even though females have no wings, and males have two wings. [ 2 ]
Grylloidea is the superfamily of insects, in the order Orthoptera, known as crickets.It includes the "true crickets", scaly crickets, wood crickets and many other subfamilies, now placed in six extant families; some genera are only known from fossils.
Psocodea is a taxonomic group of insects comprising the bark lice, book lice and parasitic lice. [2] It was formerly considered a superorder, but is now generally considered by entomologists as an order.