What arthropod groups do you classify neopterans (monhun class) as?
The descriptions for the answers would be too long to fit on a 12 answer poll so you’ll have to comment your answer on this one, sorry.
People were surprisingly diverse in their answers for this!l
An important thing to note is that Neoptera is an actual family of insects that includes all insects that can fold their wings over their backs, or are descended from ones that can.
Anyways time for my thoughts.
Hornetaur are grasshoppers.
Vespoids and Bnahabra are wasps. Bnahabra are said to lay their eggs in corpses, which is a little odd for a Hymenopteran but the family isn’t unfamiliar with doing things with dead bodies such as in the carrion bee. Some versions of their models have six wings instead of four, which I’ve always thought was to help further sell the idea of their wings beating super fast in their flying animations, plus the extra wings disappear in their resting animation. I’ve seen some people argue that these guys are beetles too.
Altaroth are ants.
Seltas and seltas queen are beetles with extremely sexually dimorphic flightless females, much like trilobite beetles. There was a time I thought that the pincer of the seltas queen could have been derived from male reproductive parts and thus indicate that the females are actually intersex much like moles, but some beetle grubs actually have pincers so this is an unlikely thought.
Ahtal-Ka is possibly a very strange mantis. The silk she produces throws some people for a loop, but silk isn’t a hard thing to evolve. It’s just protein strings. Even the muscle Pinna nobilis evolved to make it.
bulaqchi is possibly a flightless mosquito? But its mouth parts are more like those of Hemiptera.
Konchu is not an insect. I don’t care if canonically it’s a beetle, it has four pairs of walking limbs and no distinct abdomen. It’s either an isopod or a myriapod.