Sentence examples for most primitive insect from inspiring English sources

Silverfish vies with springtail in trying to be most primitive insect.

Compound eyes and ocelli are present in the oldest and most primitive insect lineages such as bristletails (Archaeognatha) and jumping tails (Collembola; Fig. 2).

The most primitive insects known are found as fossils in rocks of the Middle Devonian Period.

The most primitive insects today are found among the wingless (apterous) hexapods; sometimes known collectively as apterygotes, they include proturans, thysanurans, diplurans, and collembolans.

In the most primitive wingless insects (apterygotes) such as the silverfish Lepisma, there is almost no change in form throughout growth to the adult.

Cockroach (order Blattodea), also called roach, any of about 4,000 species of insects that are among the most primitive living, winged insects, appearing today much like they do in fossils that are more than 320 million years old.

It is likely that the most primitive symphylan-like insects were terrestrial.

This is considered to be the most primitive habit in scale insects (Gullan and Kosztarab, 1997; Koteja, 2001), and similar brood care behavior also occurs in other early scale insects, for example, Margarodidae and Matsucoccidae (Koteja, 2001).

Sawfly (superfamily Tenthredinoidea), any of a large group of widely distributed insects that are thought to be the most primitive group within the order Hymenoptera.

Prosobranch gastropods are the most primitive.

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