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Insects

Any of numerous usually small arthropod animals of the class Insecta, having an adult stage characterized by three pairs of legs and a body segmented into head, thorax, and abdomen and usually having two pairs of wings.

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glabrous
Animals; Insects

Without setae.

glossa
Animals; Insects

The inner most pair of lobes at the tip of the labium or lower lip: usually very small, but long in honey bees and bumble bees, in which the two glossae are used to suck up nectar.

gonangulum
Animals; Insects

Sclerite attached to base of first valve of ovipositor in female insects, and linking to tergum 1X, and parts of ovipositor derived from segment 1X.

haltere
Animals; Insects

One of the club-shaped 'balancers' found on each side of the metathorax among the true flies (Diptera). They are the much-modified hindwings.

haustellum
Animals; Insects

Distal portion of proboscis in adult Diptera.

head
Animals; Insects

The anterior body region of insects which bears the mouthparts, eyes, and antennae.

hemelytra
Animals; Insects

One of the basally thickened fore wings of Hemiptera.

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