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12 Orders of Insects: Introduction

Photo of an insect collection
Photo of a student insect collection [K. Ebert].

The following chapters first present the three classes of non-insect hexapods, followed by the Class Insecta and all of its Orders. The chapters are in approximate order from those that retain the most ancestral features to those that show the most modifications of the ancestral state. Each chapter lists characteristics of  each order of insects (or class of hexapods), both as adult and immature.  

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