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A lot of people call any crawly creature insects. One reason is probably that many people don’t like these creatures: They are strange-looking and when a creature has more than 4 legs, it must be an insect, right? Unfortunately, many arthropods are mistaken for being insects. But, there is a clear distinction between insects and arthropods. If you look at some of the basic characteristics, you will soon learn the difference between these creatures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arthropods are creatures with jointed legs and a chitinous<\/strong> exoskeleton, and include insects as well as non-insects such as spiders, millipedes, centipedes, and isopods. Insects are a subdivision of arthropods that are characterised by a three-part body, antennae, three pairs of legs and many of them have wings.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Different naming is often used interchangeably and incorrectly. In this article, we will discover what the difference is, what they have in common (why they are mistaken for insects) and list the creatures that are commonly called insects but are actually not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The major differences between arthropods and insects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To most of us, the term ‘insects’ represents all arthropods. Nothing is further from the truth. Actually, it is the other way around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All insects are arthropods, but not all arthropods are insects<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Generally, we lump all of these organisms together and name them from insects, bugs, arthropods and invertebrates. However, although we think almost all creatures are insects, most of them are technically not insects at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even I was surprised by some of the creatures that they weren’t insects. But we can distinguish insects very easily from the other arthropods by looking at three characteristics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Insects have a clear body plan of head, thorax and abdomen<\/li>
  2. Insects have antennae (although some very small)<\/li>
  3. Insects have three pair of legs (so six in total)<\/li>
  4. Insects (well, many of them) have two pair of wings<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Taxonomic relation between different categories and groups of invertebrates. Invertebrates make the majority of species. There a quite a few species of them that are kept as pets.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    There are several differences between insects and other arthropods. Here we discuss the major ones:<\/p>\n\n\n\n