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Insects

      Insects (from Latin insectum, a calque of Greek ἔντομον [éntomon], "cut into sections") are a class of living creatures within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax, and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae. They are among the most diverse groups of animals on the planet, including more than a million described species and represent more than half of all known living organisms. The number of extant species is estimated at between six and ten million, and potentially represent over 90% of the differing metazoan life forms on Earth.Insects may be found in nearly all environments, although only a small number of species occur in the oceans, a habitat dominated by another arthropod group, the crustaceans.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insecta

A phyllogeny of Insects
Source: http://www.windsofkansas.com/InsectaPhylogeny.html


 

PB452b
Adephaga PB452
PB452a
Adephaga PB452
PB445d
Ephemeropsis trisetalis PB445
PB445c
Ephemeropsis trisetalis PB445
PB444a
Ephemeropsis trisetalis PB444
PB442b
Ephemeropsis trisetalis PB442
PB442a
Ephemeropsis trisetalis PB442
PB445l
Ephemeropsis trisetalis PB445
PB445m
Ephemeropsis trisetalis PB445
PB445b
Ephemeropsis trisetalis PB445

In the Virtual Museum there are total 12 samples

Virtual museum of the Czech Geological Survey, www.geology.cz, (C) Czech Geological Survey, 2011, v.0.99 [13.12.2011]