The phrase "a kind of insect" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a specific type or category of insect.
Example: "The butterfly is a kind of insect that undergoes metamorphosis."
Alternatives: "a type of insect" or "a variety of insect."
Another possibility, he said, is a kind of insect insanity.
Once it settles down for the season, it enters a state known as diapause — a kind of insect hibernation, during which its metabolism slows to near-moribund conditions.
Venues were completely filled with dry ice, through which you could vaguely make out eerie figures on the stage: a deeply sinister clown, someone dressed as a kind of insect.
Around the entrance flap is a perimeter of wide tape that will be treated with Tangle-Trap, a kind of insect glue to prevent Frankenbugs from escaping and normal bugs from entering.
A tick is an arachnid, and hence not any kind of insect; it is also, needless to say, an invertebrate, and yet elsewhere in the book McCarthy endows it with a femur.
He warns that when you have a startup with a lot of hype, "it inevitably attracts a certain breed of parasitic leech that if you do make the mistake of hiring, you have to realize your mistake quickly and eradicate it like you would any kind of insect".
You are a different kind of insect, you are spinning a cocoon, and one day, I promise, you will feel the infinite beauty of the world flitter beneath your wingspan.
"Every house provides unrestricted access to all kind of insects, including rats up to 12-inches [30.5cm]," said Mr Chohan.
Currently, our knowledge about the chironomid in rice fields is limited to the species survey, and it is considered as a group insect at the family level, termed as a kind of the neutral insects.
The research focused on the German cockroach, a much smaller kind of insect than the much-pictured American cockroach.
Cuba currently supports populations of birds, a kind of crocodile, and insects found nowhere else.
