winged insect

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winged
adjective[before noun]
uk
/wɪŋd/us
/wɪŋd/
having the stated type ...
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insect
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪn.sekt/us
/ˈɪn.sekt/
a type of very small animal with six legs, a body divided into three parts and usually two pairs of wings, or, more generally, any similar very ...
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The archedictyon is the name given to a hypothetical scheme of wing venation proposed for the very firstwingedinsect.
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Among winged insects, the relatively more primitive orders are placed in the hemimetabola.
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While some other insects, such as fleas, also lack wings, they nonetheless descended from winged insects but have lost them during the course of evolution.
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They hunt food in a wide range of habitats, feeding mainly on winged insects.
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Directed aerial gliding descent is found in some tropical arboreal bristletails, an ancestrally wingless sister taxa to the winged insects.
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The origins of insect flight remain obscure, since the earliest winged insects currently known appear to have been capable fliers.
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Their diet includes immature aquatic insects, crustaceans, adult terrestrial winged insects, whole or fragmented, and carrion.
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This species already possessed dicondylic mandibles, a feature associated with winged insects, suggesting that wings may already have evolved at this time.
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It is hypothesized that these types of aerial webs co-evolved with the evolution of winged insects.
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It bears the legs, and, in the case of winged insects, the wings.
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It often feeds like a flycatcher, making aerial sallies after passing insects, and most of its food consists of winged insects.
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The birds are agile hunters and eat a variety of winged insects.
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This species already possessed dicondylic mandibles (two articulations in the mandible), a feature associated with winged insects, suggesting that wings may already have evolved at this time.
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