Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Aphaniptera"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Insecta \In*sec"ta\, n. pl. [NL. See {Insect}.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) One of the classes of Arthropoda, including
those that have one pair of antenn[ae], three pairs of
mouth organs, and breathe air by means of trache[ae],
opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this
sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and
the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See {Insect}, n.

2. (Zo["o]l.) In a more restricted sense, the Hexapoda alone.
See {Hexapoda}.

3. (Zo["o]l.) In the most general sense, the Hexapoda,
Myriapoda, and Arachnoidea, combined.

Note: The typical Insecta, or hexapod insects, are divided
into several orders, viz.: {Hymenoptera}, as the bees
and ants; {Diptera}, as the common flies and gnats;
{Aphaniptera}, or fleas; {Lepidoptera}, or moths and
butterflies; {Neuroptera}, as the ant-lions and
hellgamite; {Coleoptera}, or beetles; {Hemiptera}, as
bugs, lice, aphids; {Orthoptera}, as grasshoppers and
cockroaches; {Pseudoneuroptera}, as the dragon flies
and termites; {Euplexoptera}, or earwings; {Thysanura},
as the springtails, podura, and lepisma. See these
words in the Vocabulary.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Aphaniptera \Aph`a*nip"te*ra\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? invisible
('a priv. + ? to appear) + ? a wing.] (Zo["o]l.)
A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type.
See {Flea}.

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