insect, (class Insecta or Hexapoda), any member of the largest class of the phylum Arthropoda, which is itself the largest of the animal phyla. Insects have segmented bodies, jointed legs, and external skeletons (exoskeletons).
More than half of all the animal species described by science are insects, and it is estimated that there are more than five million extant species. That’s a lot of beetles, butterflies, moths, ants, bees, wasps, flies, termites, crickets, grasshoppers, cockroaches, mantids, dragonflies and earwigs, to name just some of the more familiar ones.
Insects are invertebrate animals of the Class Insecta, the largest and (on land) most widely distributed taxon (taxonomic unit) within the Phylum Arthropoda. Insects comprise the most numerous and diverse group of animals, with around 925,000 species described.
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