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| | The Classification Of Arthropods |
 | | Usually, the word "insect" conjures up images of annoying, unwholesome little creature, but, of course, Insecta include many beautiful and delightful little beings too, such as butterflies, bees, ladybirds, crickets and fireflies. |
 | | Insecta are divided into 27 orders: Coleoptera, Collemba, Dermaptera, Dictyoptera, Diptera, Embiidina, Ephemoptera, Grylloblattaria, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Mantophasmatodea, Mecoptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera, Odonata, Orthoptera, Phasmida, Phthiraptera, Plecoptera, Psocoptera, Siphonaptera, Strepsiptera, Thysanaptera, Thysanura, Trichoptera and Zoraptera. |
 | | Unfortunately, orders of insects do not have the sort of distinctive suffix that marks orders of birds, as I mentioned in my article, "The Classification of Birds". |
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