Arthropod Flashcards
is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton
Arthropod
is the manner in which an animal routinely casts off a part of its body
Molting
a chemical substance that an animal or insect produces in order to attract other animals or insects and especially a mate.
Pheromones
The middle division of the body of an insect, to which the wings and legs are attached.
Thorax
he region of the body in between the thorax and the pelvis.
Abdomen
is a tagma of various arthropods, comprising the head and the thorax fused together, as distinct from the abdomen behind.
Cephalothorax
a rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods, providing both support and protection.
Exoskeleton
one of the pair of legs that bears the large chelae in decapod crustaceans.
Cheliped
a tubular excretory organ, numbers of which open into the gut in insects and some other arthropods
Malpighean tubes
an arthropod of the class Arachnida, such as a spider or scorpion.
Arachnid
Arachnid that spin complex webs to entrap the insects upon which they prey.
Spiders
process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal’s body structure through cell growth and differentiation.
Metamorphosis
Any of various widespread arthropods of the class Crustacea that live mostly in water and have a hard shell, a segmented body, and jointed appendages.
Crustaceans
any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
Insects
are connected to the first one or two segments of the arthropod head.
Antennae
Any one of numerous species of pulmonate arachnids of the order scorpiones, having a suctorial mouth, large claw-bearing palpi, and a caudal sting.
Scorpions
one of a number of abdominal limbs or appendages, usually adapted for swimming and for carrying eggs, as distinguished from other limbs adapted for walking or seizing.
Swimmerets
one of a pair of large green glands in some crustaceans (such as crayfishes) that have an excretory function and open at the bases of the larger antennae.
Green glands
are small arachnids, part of the order Parasitiformes. Along with mites, they constitute the subclass Acari. Ticks are ectoparasites (external parasites), living by feeding on the blood of mammals, birds, and sometimes reptiles and amphibians.
Woodtick
are insects of the suborder Caelifera within the order Orthoptera, which includes crickets and their allies in the other suborder Ensifera
Grasshopper
are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight.
Butterfly
a cosmopolitan dipteran fly (Musca domestica) that is often about human habitations and may act as a mechanical vector of diseases (such as typhoid fever)
Housefly
They have been deemed biting flies for they must draw blood from other animals in order to facilitate reproduction
Mosquito
are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting “tail”
Crab
a large marine crustacean with a cylindrical body, stalked eyes, and the first of its five pairs of limbs modified as pincers.
Lobster
