Integuments of arthropoda are covered with
Integuments of arthropoda are covered with Correct Answer Chitinous cuticles
Explanation:
Arthropoda:
- This is the largest phylum of Animalia which includes insects. Over two-thirds of all named species on earth are arthropods
- They have an organ-system level of organisation. They are bilaterally symmetrical, triploblastic, segmented and coelomate animals
- The body of arthropods is covered by a chitinous exoskeleton.
Other characters of Phylum Arthropoda are:
- The body consists of the head, thorax and abdomen.
- They have jointed appendages (arthros-joint, poda-appendages).
- Respiratory organs are gills, book gills, book lungs or tracheal system.
- The circulatory system is of open type. Sensory organs like antennae, eyes (compound and simple), statocysts or balancing organs are present.
- Excretion takes place through malpighian tubules. They are mostly dioecious. Fertilisation is usually internal.
- They are mostly oviparous. Development may be direct or indirect.
- Economically important insects – Apis (Honey bee), Bombyx (Silkworm), Laccifer (Lac insect)
- Vectors – Anopheles, Culex and Aedes (Mosquitoes)
- Gregarious pest – Locusta (Locust)
- Living fossil – Limulus (King crab).
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