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Insecta

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Insecta is the taxon name in UniProt Taxonomy, with NCBI identifier 50557 and source rank class. The classification below follows this captured record; it is not a reconstruction of evolutionary relationships. [1]

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Source classification

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  1. cellular organisms no rank
  2. Eukaryota domain
  3. Opisthokonta clade
  4. Metazoa kingdom
  5. Eumetazoa clade
  6. Bilateria clade
  7. Protostomia clade
  8. Ecdysozoa clade
  9. Panarthropoda clade
  10. Arthropoda phylum
  11. Mandibulata clade
  12. Pancrustacea clade
  13. Altocrustacea clade
  14. Allotriocarida clade
  15. Hexapoda subphylum
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  1. Captured UniProt Taxonomy record 7227

    2026-09-12T11:14:06.973272+00:00 · CC-BY-4.0

    Provenance and original
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    bdc24f80235b293c3db0a15651aca094a41ff776783cb72f8be0eb8c1b32201f
    Version details
    No native taxonomy release was supplied; exact response hash and retrieval time are retained.
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bdc24f80235b293c3db0a15651aca094a41ff776783cb72f8be0eb8c1b32201f
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01 · A place in the living world

Classification

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  1. No rankcellular organisms
  2. DomainEukaryota
  3. CladeOpisthokonta
  4. KingdomMetazoa
  5. CladeEumetazoa
  6. CladeBilateria
  7. CladeProtostomia
  8. CladeEcdysozoa
  9. CladePanarthropoda
  10. PhylumArthropoda
  11. CladeMandibulata
  12. CladePancrustacea
  13. CladeAltocrustacea
  14. CladeAllotriocarida
  15. SubphylumHexapoda
  16. ClassInsecta

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Classification and name provenance; a source-attributed description.

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UniProt Taxonomy7227CC-BY-4.0Source record ↗
UniProt Taxonomy7227CC-BY-4.0Description version ↗