Insect

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An insect is an animal in the Insecta class in the phylum Arthropoda. They are small terrestrial invertebrates which have a hard exoskeleton. They are the largest group of animals by far, with about 926,400 different species having been identified. They are more than half of all known living species and may be over 90% of animal species on Earth.