✔️Who are insects?
Phylum Arthropods are Protostomes.
✔️Representative of Class Insecta have following characters:
- 6 segments fused to form head.
- 1 pair antenna.
- Trunk:3 segmented;
- Thorax is divided into Prothorax, Mesothorax & Metathorax.
- A pair of legs originated from every thoracic segments .So total 3 pair of legs are present.
- Abdomen :11 segmented
- 2 pair of wings are present on dorsal side.Fore wing is harder than membranous hind wing beneath.Presence of median ocelli & compound eyes.
✔️General Characteristics of Class Insecta and living orders with examples: Orthoptera, Dictyoptera, Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Anoplura (Imms, A.D., 1938)
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