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Arthropod is a really general classification; it's a phylum, man, there are a whole lot of disparate critters that fall under this category. From wikipedia: "An arthropod is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and jointed appendages."

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Mosquito is arthropod as it possess all arthropods characters i.e. jointed appendages , exoskeleton and open blood system .

It is an insect as it possess all insect characters as

1 , six legs .

2 , one pair of antenna

3 , three tagmata

4 , paired wings etc.

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