• Kalash
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      Bugs are technically crustaceans

      I’m not sure why that would be.

      Generally bugs is a colloquial name and has no specific meaning in taxonomy.

      Unless you mean “true bugs” from the order Hemiptera, which are definitely insects.

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          mh … from my understanding “crustacean” are in the phylum “Crustacea”, which doesn’t include hexapods. You’re thinking of the clade “Pancrustacea”.

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              11 year ago

              Ok?

              Each node on a phylogenetic tree is a taxonomic unit. You can’t really talk about one without the other.