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Insecta

Name: Chekhov Entire
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

insecta

also: насекомые

The Latin zoological class name for insects, used repeatedly in Chekhov's mock-scientific taxonomy of 'sexual authority' across the animal kingdom.

Reading notes

To Al. P. Chekhov, 17–18 April 1883. Moscow. §5 insecta
Latin zoological class name for insects, used in Chekhov's invented taxonomy of 'sexual authority' across the animal kingdom.

To Al. P. Chekhov, 17–18 April 1883. Moscow. letter · 1 mention