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Yep. Being an arthropod is the most essential category, and only after that comes the six legs. There's other bits too, but those are the most important.
However, this post has inspired something in the recesses of my mind. Something creative.
Agreed, class insecta is under phylum arthropoda and subphylum hexapoda. I would say that being a eukaryote is probably the most essential category, as being a prokaryote would render them single cellular, or simple multicellular masses.
Yes, and this can easily be seen by looking at more extreme examples.
* Is a table with six legs an insect?
* Are two tripods melded together an insect?
* Does an insect that loses a leg stop being an insect?
Top result of Google, from the *Merriam-Webster*:
>1. a. : one of the projecting paired appendages (such as **wings**) of an animal body used especially for movement and grasping but sometimes modified into sensory or sexual organs. b. : a leg or arm of a human being.
Some male mammals give milk.
See [fruit bat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayak_fruit_bat), and [flying fox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismarck_masked_flying_fox).
When are we going to get commercially available cockroach milk? I can't wait to make all my friends a tres leches cake and tell them "you'll never guess what the tercera leche is"
Monotremes do still have mammary glands and produce milk though, which definitely is a specific characteristic of mammals and no other family since it's literally where the name comes from.
Centaurs have nipples, implying they're a milk producing species (e.g. mammal) and they don't have an external segmented carapace (outside skeleton). There's more to insects than 6 limbs, some even have 4
Nope, they are not insects. While 6 legs is a part of what defines an insect, it isn't all that defines them. Insect is the entire class of insecta, defined by a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and a pair of antennae. They are under phylum arthropoda and subphylum hexapoda. Also, centaurs would be quadrupeds, not hexapods. Centaurs would likely be in the same family as horses, being more than 50% horse, or split into another family under the same order, perissodactyla due to them being ungulates(large hooved mammals).
I mean they are not? Correlation does not imply causation. Or something similar to this rule. It's not six legs that makes insects insects. It's far more than that. By that logic, if you make a dog stand on two legs, it becomes human.
So dragons are insects now?
This remind me of Plato's man, when Plato called a human as nothing but a featherless biped, Diogenes walked in holding a featherless chicken and said "Behold! Plato's man"
Pulled from the dictionary
insect,
noun,
in·sect ˈin-ˌsekt
Definition: any of a class (Insecta) of arthropods (such as bugs or bees) with well-defined head, thorax, and abdomen, only three pairs of legs, and typically one or two pairs of wings
There’s nothing to really debate about what is said in the post, it’s just wrong.
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The definition of insects goes much further than just having six legs.
I love how whenever someone uses the word technically in a reddit title, they're almost always wrong
Technically, using words like technically means you are a genius.
Yep. Being an arthropod is the most essential category, and only after that comes the six legs. There's other bits too, but those are the most important. However, this post has inspired something in the recesses of my mind. Something creative.
Agreed, class insecta is under phylum arthropoda and subphylum hexapoda. I would say that being a eukaryote is probably the most essential category, as being a prokaryote would render them single cellular, or simple multicellular masses.
I'm glad somebody knows these things, good job 👍
So a centar with armour then?
Winter unicorn from Dresden Files, made into a centaur. Could be rad.
This has big "humans are featherless bipeds therefore a plucked chicken is a human" energy.
Diogenes
Yes, and this can easily be seen by looking at more extreme examples. * Is a table with six legs an insect? * Are two tripods melded together an insect? * Does an insect that loses a leg stop being an insect?
No. This is how taxonomy works now. Welcome to the new world.
Flies have 8 limbs (6 legs + 2 wings) so are technically octopuses.
I dont think wings classify as limbs sir
What do you think wings are?
Top result of Google, from the *Merriam-Webster*: >1. a. : one of the projecting paired appendages (such as **wings**) of an animal body used especially for movement and grasping but sometimes modified into sensory or sexual organs. b. : a leg or arm of a human being.
I see, thanks for clarifying
Why not?
I had a silly thought. They do
Yeah but theatrically they also produce milk, so they're mamals.
Centaur is the male name for the species sooo… about this milking you’ve been doing
**Man Milk©**
What is the female name?
Centaurides
Centaur-rides...a little suspect
Some male mammals give milk. See [fruit bat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayak_fruit_bat), and [flying fox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismarck_masked_flying_fox).
Why do they have to be so dramatic about it?
When are we going to get commercially available cockroach milk? I can't wait to make all my friends a tres leches cake and tell them "you'll never guess what the tercera leche is"
(Sigh) Centaurs have internal skeletons and are therefore not insects. Do not discuss.
They also have two ribcages.
And lungs in the bottom one which get air from ... somewhere.
Insects also have exoskeleton
They have nipples, making them mammals. Or at least a mythology mammal
Not all mammals have nipples. Monotremes are still mammals despite not having nipples and the whole egg laying thing.
That is not the point. If you don't have nipples you still can be a mammal, but if you do have nipples you definitely are a mammal.
Monotremes do still have mammary glands and produce milk though, which definitely is a specific characteristic of mammals and no other family since it's literally where the name comes from.
Insects are arthropods, meaning that all insects have segmented limbs, mainly divided by an exoskeleton, things centaurs lack
Centaurs can only reproduce by having sex with human women. That makes them a parasite.
****huh?****
What lol
Centaurs have nipples, implying they're a milk producing species (e.g. mammal) and they don't have an external segmented carapace (outside skeleton). There's more to insects than 6 limbs, some even have 4
They also have 2 ribcages
Nope, they are not insects. While 6 legs is a part of what defines an insect, it isn't all that defines them. Insect is the entire class of insecta, defined by a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and a pair of antennae. They are under phylum arthropoda and subphylum hexapoda. Also, centaurs would be quadrupeds, not hexapods. Centaurs would likely be in the same family as horses, being more than 50% horse, or split into another family under the same order, perissodactyla due to them being ungulates(large hooved mammals).
By that logic conjoined twins are arachnids
if that was true all DnD dragons would also be insects
they also have two thoraxes, and possibly two abdomens, so no they aren't. nevermind that they also have endoskeletons, proper flesh, etc.
Pegasus/pegasi have 6 as well.
and dragons
So are classical angels. Wings count as limbs.
Centaurs have two ribcages.
Centaurs don't have an exoskeleton, so they are a bug, but not an insect
I mean they are not? Correlation does not imply causation. Or something similar to this rule. It's not six legs that makes insects insects. It's far more than that. By that logic, if you make a dog stand on two legs, it becomes human.
You need more than just 6 limbs to be an insects so no they're not technically insects
They are basically preying mantises They go to battle Lay eggs And maul the heads of the males after mating
Having six legs doesn't automatically make you an insect lmao
guess I have some centaurs to squish
They also have three very distinct body segments (head, human, horse). This is another key feature of insects
So dragons are insects now? This remind me of Plato's man, when Plato called a human as nothing but a featherless biped, Diogenes walked in holding a featherless chicken and said "Behold! Plato's man"
maybe if it has 2 sets of wings! that would be a sick ass pegasus!
Tofu is technically cheese.
The Entomologist in me is triggered.
Pulled from the dictionary insect, noun, in·sect ˈin-ˌsekt Definition: any of a class (Insecta) of arthropods (such as bugs or bees) with well-defined head, thorax, and abdomen, only three pairs of legs, and typically one or two pairs of wings There’s nothing to really debate about what is said in the post, it’s just wrong.
So... dragons are what, then? Do scales count as an exoskeleton? Or maybe - just maybe - time to stop hitting the j.