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Classification of phylum Arthropoda

What are the groups into which the phylum Arthropoda is classified? Name the three main ones and a few of their representative species?

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The three main groups of arthropods are: insects (bees, cockroaches, ants, flies, beetles and butterflies), crustaceans (lobsters, crabs, shrimps and barnacles) and arachnids (spiders, scorpions and mites). Other groups are onychophorans (or velvet worms), diplopods (or millipedes) and chilopods (or centipedes).

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