Describe salient features of phylum arthropoda write the distinguishing characters of class insecta with two examples
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Silent features of arthropoda are the following :
1) The body of arthropods are divided into two equal parts.
2) They have three body parts i. e. head, thorax and abdomen.
3) They have jointed legs.
4) The exoskeleton is composed of chitin.
5) The colour of their blood is white.
Characteristics of class insecta:
1) Their body is consist of head, thorax and abdomen.
2) They have six legs.
3) One or two pairs of wings.
4) One pair of antenna.
Examples are ants, house fly and honey bees etc.
Insects or Insecta are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Definitions and circumscriptions vary; usually, insects comprise a class within the Arthropoda. As used here, the term Insecta is synonymous with Ectognatha.