Synonyms and Antonyms of insecta

insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species (noun.animal)

(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders (noun.group)

an order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from the Baltic region (noun.animal)

an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip (noun.animal)

minute wingless arthropods: springtails (noun.animal)

minute wingless arthropods: telsontails (noun.animal)

beetles (noun.animal)

web spinners (noun.animal)

sucking lice (noun.animal)

biting lice (noun.animal)

fleas (noun.animal)

a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies (noun.animal)

an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc. (noun.animal)

order of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass Exopterygota (noun.animal)

grasshoppers and locusts; crickets (noun.animal)

in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects (noun.animal)

subclass of insects characterized by gradual and usually incomplete metamorphosis (noun.animal)

in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsu more.. in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera (noun.animal)

plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas) (noun.animal)

an order of insects: includes booklice and bark-lice (noun.animal)

mayflies (noun.animal)

stoneflies (noun.animal)

an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies (noun.animal)

dragonflies and damselflies (noun.animal)

an order of insects consisting of caddis flies (noun.animal)

firebrats; silverfish; machilids (noun.animal)

thrips (noun.animal)

earwigs and a few related forms (noun.animal)

moths and butterflies (noun.animal)

jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes (noun.animal)