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Which insect body region carries the legs and wings?

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Illustration showing a variety of adult insects, each labeled with its common name and order, including walkingstick, earwig, stonefly, tree cricket, dragonfly, female scale, cat flea, thrips, sucking louse, thysanuran, ant, scarab beetle, stinkbug, mosquito, and cabbage butterfly, highlighting their diverse shapes and sizes. — insect An illustration of insect diversity.

In insects, the body region that carries the legs and wings is the thorax.

The thorax is the middle of the three major divisions of the insect body, situated between the head and the abdomen. It consists of three segments—the prothorax, mesothorax, and metathorax—each of which bears a pair of legs. In mature insects, the mesothorax and the metathorax typically each carry a pair of wings.123