Insecta

Historical Examples

• A second group is the Insecta, of which we know something already.

  A Civic Biology

  George William Hunter

• Why it is, in the Insecta, that islands should predispose to an apterous state more than continents, it is not easy to speculate.

  On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera

  Thomas Vernon Wollaston

• But facts like those are, after all, nothing more than such as we may trace the counterpart of in higher animals than the Insecta.

  On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera

  Thomas Vernon Wollaston

• On the other hand, we certainly cannot regard the Collembola as a group equivalent in value to the Insecta.

  Our Common Insects

  Alpheus Spring Packard

• It was thus reduced by Lamarck in area, and made to comprise only the six-legged, wing-bearing “Insecta.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3

  Various