Talk:Insect
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This page should be a little more user-friendly!!!
>> Insects do not breathe <<
They do, according to a research conducted earlier this year: http://www.anl.gov/OPA/news03/news030124.htm --172.177.6.244 13:56, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
How are we going to make a page, list of insects, when there are at least 1 million named species...? ugen64 01:07, Feb 15, 2004 (UTC)
CSIRO entomology (http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/insects_allies.html) is a very good resource for the characterisitcs and life cycle of the insect families--nixie 13:22, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Examples
I'd like to see examples of types of insects mentions. For example a few examples of the ocean insects alludes to and such. I read some of those lines and really wanted to know more. I think a few examples would help complete the article further. --Sketchee 02:14, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
Triplehorn and Johnson call hexapoda a class and insecta a taxon (superorder?), including all insects, except for collembola, diplura and protura. What do you think about this? Matthias5 23:59, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Arthropod classification varies a lot from one author to the next, but class Hexapoda usually appears in the context of a subphylum Uniramia, a group that molecular trees have called into question. Is there any compelling reason not to stick with the ranks presently listed? Josh
Familes redirecting to species...
It seems in my efforts to add individual species, I come across a bunch of examples of cases where a family is a redirect to a common name. I'm trying to figure out if I'm just being a whack job about this, or if others agree it's a bad idea. Examples include : Papilionidae and Blattodea as a few. It seems to me that anything above species should not redirect to a single common name that is a species. The reason this makes it more difficult for me is that if I want to put in a species that is below that, I have to go and destroy the redirect, copy taxoboxes and figure it all out to put in a single species...and when I have several it's frustrating. As an example, Mantodea used to redirect to Praying Mantis, so that when I wanted to put in the Chinese Mantis I had to break out Mantodea as well as Mantidae (oh, and for the record, I think this needs to be cleaned up). For those of you who actually understand this stuff it might be obvious, but it's a struggle for me every time. (Things I want to put in as examples are some butterflies: siproeta stelenes, dryas julia, heliconius charitonius, and junonia coenia that I have good images of.) I want to make sure I have consensus, and hopefully there can be a consensus about ripping these out. Wikibofh 04:26, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)