Insect specimens that have puzzled museum curators for decades turn out to represent a lineage so odd that scientists have named a new order just for them, the first one created in 87 years. The order ...

Introduction -- Dichotomous keys -- External anatomy -- Insect development -- Taxonomic terminology -- Taxonomy, classification, and nomenclature -- Phylum Arthropoda ...

It's a once-in-a-lifetime event. The creatures pictured here are members of the first new order of insects to be discovered since before the First World War. The Mantophasmatodea, as they have been ...

Suzuki, K. and Furth, David George. 1990. "What is a Natural Classification? A Case Study in Insect Systematics: Potential Confusion Before Order. Part II." Seibutsu Kagaku (=Biological Sciences), 42, ...

Researchers have discovered a 100-million-year-old insect preserved in amber with a triangular head, almost-alien and 'E.T.-like' appearance and features so unusual that it has been placed in its own ...

The insect order Hymenoptera -- wasps, bees, ants and relatives -- is the third most diverse animal group, but its origin remains controversial. Fossils from Permian beds of Russia demonstrate that ...

The UK has a new order of insects, thanks to stowaways that set up home in the warmth of a glasshouse. The silk-spinning insects, known as webspinners, seemingly hitched a ride on imported plants.

A BIZARRE spiny-backed cricket-like insect thought to have lived and died millions of years ago has been found to be thriving on a remote peak in Namibia, scientists said on Wednesday. The find has ...

Termites are just cockroaches with a fancy social life, according to the biggest DNA study yet of the two groups. The idea’s been “simmering,” says Paul Eggleton of the Natural History Museum in ...