The past two decades have witnessed profound changes in our understanding of the evolution of arthropods. Many of these insights derive from the adoption of molecular methods by systematists and ...

Provides dichotomous key and illustrations that provide identification of common arthropods to the order/class level. by Donald J. Borror and Richard E. White. Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Details ...

Arthropods, a class of animals named after the jointed legs characteristic of its member species, includes creatures as diverse as king crabs, insects, and scorpions.

The boundary around insects is clearer than it is around bugs. Insects are a class in the phylum Arthropoda, which also includes arachnids like spiders, myriapods like centipedes, and crustaceans ...

Lomankus edgecombei belonged to the Megacheiran class, a group of arthropods that were abundant during the Cambrian period.