Species:
There are 10 major species of Insect that have been discovered and exist within The Astarian Empire.

Coleoptera, Diptera, Orthoptera, Odonata, Mantodea, Lepidopterad, Lepidopteran, Hymenopterab, Hymenopteraw, Hymenopteraa

Sub Species:
These are the major sub species of each species of Insect.

Coleoptera (Colo): Black Beetle, Armored Beetle, Plague Beetle
Diptera (Dipa):
Orthoptera (Orto):
Odonata (Odo):
Mantodea (Mano): Camouflaged Mantis, Armored Mantis, Toxic Mantis:
Lepidopterad (Lrad):
Lepidopteran (Lran):
Hymenopterab (Hrab):
Hymenopteraw (Hraw):
Hymenopteraa (Hraa): Black Ant, Armored Ant, Fire Ant

The Coleoptera:
The Coleoptera (Colo) or Beetles are a powerful beetle-like people who grow to large sizes in both their humanoid and insectoid forms. Their hardened carapace protects it from great dangers while their wings allow it to glide for short distances. Their powerful pincers allow for some devastating crushing and bludgeoning attacks to be made.
Insectoid Form: Known as Coleoptera Int. Large Beetle creatures which can charge their enemies head on and crush their enemies in between their carapaces.
Humanoid Form: Known as Coleoptera Hum. This form resembles a Centaur as it has a large lower body and its upper body has a strong beetle like armor using tools and weapons in their hands. On their outer arms they have a massive pincer claw which can rip and tear into the flesh and armor of their target. This allows them to become powerful mounted like calvary units which can tank power attacks and spells.
Each species of Beetle have the following sub species:
Black Beetle: A black carapace shell and glowing red eyes. They have powerful magic attacks and thick armor.
Armored Beetle: Steel like plating wraps around the carapace increasing the durability. They have an armor like helmet made of carapace over their heads.
Plague Beetle: They are smaller and more greenish in color as they can leak a poisonous mist and use poison based magic.

The Diptera:
The Diptera (Dipa) are large slender mosquito-like creatures which develop stronger and more powerful wings as its body undergoes a stretching and elongating process after consuming more and more biomass and blood. Although they are pack hunters with high intelligence, they lack the means to communicate or rationalize thoughts as well as they have no humanoid forms. Their high intelligence allows them to stalk their prey and avid general detection while becoming a menace to all societies. They are a menace to most worlds and they carry their young on their bodies so when they die they release entire swarms of smaller younglings which will feed then flee to begin the process of developing more resistant Diptera. They can gain magical and elemental properties given time as they draw the essence from the target. The swarm considers them a priority 1 target as they can kill millions of swarms if left alone on a world they inhabit. The swarm can’t get anything genetically from the Diptera and will do everything they can to fully eradicate them on a world before the assault even begins in earnest. The Diptera find the swarm as the perfect feeding ground and will purposely dive bomb their hives to instantly infest them with rapid growing and rapid egg laying Diptera. When a Diptera undergoes a humanoid form mutation they will lose almost all of their traits and become a normal human with a longer nose and big beady eyes. This makes them more bug-like people than the other species of Insects.

The Orthoptera:
The Orthoptera (Orto) are large 1 meter Locust creatures with no innate intelligence or humanoid forms that evolve into creatures which spread a miasma and or elemental mist which can cause damage over vast areas. They are excellent at spreading plagues and diseases which develop from raw magic mixing with rotten dying flora and plant material. They are hopping or leaping creatures that birth live young which are smaller, rapidly developing and growing insect menaces. They will consume smaller flora and plant matter until they reach adulthood. Once they are adults they will stay within a group and continue leaping and flying to reach higher places as a pack. They have developed a small acidic gland which allows them to spit small globs of acid at attackers. In their humanoid form they have large bulbous bodies which they use many pairs of legs to support their weight. They can deeply inhale then exhale spewing bile in an area in front of them. The more they evolve the more they can turn into a smaller humanoid creature with small sacs of acid which they naturally create and can be either detoxed during trips to the bathroom or they can be used as a weapon.

The Odonata:
The Odonata (Odo) are large 2 meter long .5 meter wide carnivorous insect creatures which consume insects and smaller fish. Although large in size with up to 12 pairs of wings and the ability to open their mouth allowing their prey to be sucked into their maws of teeth, the Odonata do not attack large predators or people. Instead they tend to live with people and will produce eggs into the watch which will sink to the bottom releasing into a nymph-like creature on a smaller scale with no wings which is able to rapidly swim and hunt in the water. They spend years to decades hunting the water growing wings so they may take to the skies in search for larger stronger prey. As they are natural hunters, they primarily consume Orthoptera and Diptera. To the joy of the swarm, they keep them in a stasis always ready to remove that which ails them. In their humanoid form they are very tall and slender as their extra legs dangle by their sides and they tend to consume others using sharp talons to pierce their carapace and tear them apart. They became such a threat with their little intelligence and rational thinking that they are easily manipulated and are used in service to dark beings to cause havoc across their lands.

The Mantodea:
The Mantodea (Mano) are large long leaping predators and hunters of prey. They come in 3 major distinctive colors. They start life as small green versions which hatch from an egg cluster. As they grow in size they begin to hunt prey and develop sharp scythe-like claw weapons for hands and a sharp mandible. Once they begin to grow in size and reach 1 meter tall and .5 meters long they enter into their yellow stage. Their color turns from green to yellow as their carapace develops a solar absorbing property and increases all their skills and abilities many fold. They begin to use different types of magic as they absorb the elements of those they kill and eat through an evolutionary tree. As they grow much older, stronger, and bigger they enter the brown stage. They begin to use a natural camouflage skill which allows them to easily hide their massive 2 meter tall 1 meter long body from all the prey that comes their way. Their powerful mandible becomes even stronger as they can spit an acid-like substance to help dissolve and break down flesh and bone. Their scythe arms become much larger and spread open like claws turning into 3 large blade like weapons that they can keep together for more damage. They engage in quick sprints and short leaps to dash through the forest felling the small trees in the path of their blades. The Mantodea tend to avoid large groups like a group of travelers or dense populations of people living together as they are solitary hunters and can be overwhelmed by numbers. If they find a lone person they will easily separate them in two and consume them quickly to leave nothing behind. Their intelligence is high enough that they will pile up all the belongings and use their acid to dissolve the entire area making them seem like they were hunted by a different kind of beast. As Mantodea evolve into a humanoid form they keep their beady bug eyes and face while their body shrinks and adapts to walk on closer stronger legs. They appear to be like Arachnids as they have 4 legs and skitter with thin skinny upper bodies. They develop scythe-like blades from their elbows and hands with claws. They will begin to develop a fin going down their backs and vibrant markings across their bodies.

Each species of Mantis have the following sub species:
Camouflaged Mantis: Mantis who have gained invisibility and camouflaging magics to hide themselves.
Armored Mantis: Mantis that have a hard steel-like outer shell which increases their resistances and survivability.
Toxic Mantis: Mantis that have gained poisonous magic and small barbs of toxins on and around their bodies.


The Lepidopterad and The Lepidopteran:
The Lepidopteras is the plural classification form and is made up of both the Lepidopterad (Lrad) and The Lepidopteran (Lran). Known by their insect names as Moth and Butterfly. Both of them are flying insects which have a life cycle in which they undergo a complete metamorphosis. The various stages of their life are the same with key factors changing what their final metamorphosis is.
Known as Lepidopterad Int or the Lepidopteran Int is broken down into a multi stage life cycle. The stages are the Egg, Larvae, Pupa, and Adult stage.
Egg Stage:
The eggs are large and hatch into 3-5 Larvae which grow from a 1 meter long .5 meter wide tubular shape into a massive 4 meter long 2 meter wide worm like Larvae.
Larva Stage:
They generally become stronger as over time they develop an armor-like carapace which protects them as they feed. The more they feed the stronger they will become, even developing more legs and tunneling methods to burrow into the ground. Many of these can stay at this stage for centuries growing so large they can develop massive caverns and tunnel networks under the ground.
Pupa Stage / Larva Stage:
The swarm have been harvesting them to make their Larvae even stronger and more resilient. Once the Larva has consumed enough food, grown to a point where they can’t grow any more, or are under threat they will enter into their Pupa or cocooned stage. Their body locks together and secretes a membrane outside the outer wall of the carapace, the inside of the carapace wall will begin to break down and be absorbed into the Adult form. As the cocoon pulsates with life, it will grow into its adult form. What comes out is either a Lepidopterad Hum or Lepidopteran Hum depending on if the Larva’s environment is more or less focused on day or night. Many different things can influence the natural process but generally it comes down to the better chance of survival.
Adult Stage:
Humanoid Form: Known as Lepidopterad Hum. A 2 meter tall day flying humanoid creature which has 2 massive very vibrant and bright colored wings that have small scales made of the carapace of the Larva. The carapace is thick enough to withstand basic spells and smaller physical weapons but generally they are taken down with kinetic weapons. They have long tongue-like pollinators which burst from the palms of their hands allowing them to pollinate many different plants at once. Their special pollen mixes with the flora and plants of a world causing them to swell greatly as they produce a rich energy from a chemical reaction. Pumping more pollen makes the reaction generate more energy which the Lepidopterad will absorb growing stronger. The Lepidopterad tend to be pack hunters and will use any and all tools they come across to further their civilization. As they are highly intelligent and civilized they will not accept any other stages of life into their societies and will build their homes inside of massive trees or large flora and plants which protrude high from the ground. As they age, their powers over their natural powers and magic grow exponentially and they become fearsome warriors of the skies.
Humanoid Form: Known as Lepidopteran Hum. A 3.5 meter tall bulky night hunting and flying humanoid creature which has 4 massive darkly colored wings. They are covered in thick scales and can be used for extra protection in combat, they are made of the carapace of the Larva and can regrow if damaged. The carapace is very dense and thick, covered in hairs to allow for extra sensing and feeling the fluctuations in the air, it has super high resistance to kinetic and impact weapons. They are the natural fortresses of the skies as they have small holes on their outer carapace which will shoot small projectiles of a solid thick shard of pollen which can cause intense infections and make the target generate a ton of heat if struck. The swarm has absorbed many of them to increase their fighting capabilities and add protections to the skies.

The Hymenopterab, The Hymenopteraw, and The Hymenopteraa:
The Hymenoptera is the plural classification form and is made up of all three, The Hymenopterab (Hrab) and The Hymenopteraw (Hraw), and The Hymenopteraa (Hraa). This group makes up the majority of all Insect Kind throughout the galaxy. As The Hymenoptera are made up of massive bipedal colonies of humanoid insects ranging from their monarchy using a caste system, they resemble the race of humans far more than people may think or believe. All Hymenoptera stand about 2 meters tall and each have their own defining traits. They will live together as their subspecies and will war with each other constantly over territory. Both The Hymenopterab and The Hymenopteraw are flying insects who will watch from above and not engage them while they war with each other. While Hymenopteraa evolving from ants are a hive mind colony based insect group which specializes in territorial defense and invasions. They will swarm with basic weapons en masse and cause entire areas to be trampled barren. Hymenopteraa have strong carapaces that are resistant to both magic and weapons making them harder to kill. Their natural armor protects them and allows them to naturally blend into their surroundings. The Hymenopterab evolving from bees have large massive wings and a powerful stinger as a tail. Their tail will inject a powerful paralytic which can bring down other races in a single hit if they do not have any resistance.The Hymenopteraw evolving from wasps do not have a stinger tail and instead they have a small cannon-like bone ejector which is housed on their outer forearm. They have arms and claws for defence but they can eject a sharp bone which pierces thick armor and carapace then explodes inside the target. They consume their prey and grow stronger for it. Generally they are kind people who hunt when needed but when disturbed they will begin to attack cities and towns eating all the people after hitting them with their bones.The Hymenopterab and The Hymenopteraw will live in their large nests protecting their own territories in the skies above. As they are massive, seeing a nest of them high on the cliffs or in the trees can spell doom for races below. The Hymenopterab sting people with their stinger and will carry them as they hover and fly them back to their nests using more Hymenopterab. They encase them in a pod filled with a thick gel-like substance which slowly dissolves them and feeds all Hymenopterab connected to the nest.

Each species of Hymenopteraa have the following sub species:
Black Ant: Larger and far stronger than other ants.
Armored Ant: Steel coated carapace increases resistance to most attacks and reduces damage.
Fire Ant: Fire Ants have specialized mandibles which generate a small heated tip. Their bites inject a liquid which then ignites. They can also breathe a thick stream of flames by heating their mandibles and spewing liquid.