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Latest comment: 17 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
I realised today that we've got separate articles for biramous and uniramous. Sihce these terms are only meaningful in discussions of arthropod legs, I suggest that their material be brought here as an extra section. I don't know of any good pictures showing a biramous leg, but one would be useful. --Stemonitis14:06, 13 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Oppose merger of articles re: segments of insect leg
To answer your concerns, a merger need not result in a loss of references - these could easily be brought over to arthropod leg. Nor would there necessarily be any dilution of information, since insects have their own section in that article. The separate articles are stubs and are unlikely to grow into anything much longer. They would however, fit perfectly into the arthropod leg article. I can see little reason for preserving their separateness. --Stemonitis07:32, 15 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 17 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Mention the average number of legs left for various arthropods by the time of their death.
For spiders it seems oh, 7.2, down from 8.0 at birth, (which also mention (8).)
Also mention that it seems like no big deal for spiders to lose a leg or two.
Latest comment: 9 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion
A lot (but not all) of this article treats insects as a separate category from crustaceans, including saying that the crustacean naming differs from "other", and so on. But insects are crustaceans. It feels like some editors of this article don't know that. 2601:1C2:5000:E7:3599:CC36:A009:E942 (talk) 01:40, 12 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Phylogenetically, yes, insects belong in Pancrustacea, but the reality is that there are different systems for naming the parts of the legs of groups of arthropods that were traditionally treated separately. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:28, 13 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
