Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Hexapoda

Insecta

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Apterygota
Dictyoptera
Embioptera
Hymenoptera
Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758
Mecoptera
Megaloptera
Microcoryphia
Neuroptera
Odonata
Orthoptera
Phasmatodea
Phthiraptera
Plecoptera
Psocoptera
Pterygota
Raphidioptera
Siphonaptera
Strepsiptera
Thysanoptera
Trichoptera
Zygentoma

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: insecten sources: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium

English: insects

English-United States: insects sources: Charles Hussey

French: insectes

German: Insekten

Swedish: egentliga insekter sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Комахи

Literature

basis of record	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.

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Citation

WoRMS (2014). Insecta. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1307

Taxonomic Coordinator. Insecta. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=4