ARTHROPODA Flashcards
The largest and most diverse crustacean group is known as
Malacostraca e.g crab, lobster, crayfish, etc
The largest phylum consists of about 30 million extant species is
Arthropoda
The sub- phyla of arthropoda include
Mandibulata, Tardigrada, Onycophora, Trilobitomorpha, Chelicerata
Chelicerata is divided into classes, name them
Crustacean, Arachnida, Merostoma/Xiphosurans , Pcynogonida.
A good example of organism under the class merostomata is
Limulus Polyphemus or carcinoscorpious rotunda
The orders of the class Arachnida include
Acarina, pseudoscorpions, piliones(harvestmen and daddy long legs ), aranea
The orders of crustacean include
Cirripedia( barnacles), copepoda (copepoda),malacostraca, anostraca,
The sub-phyla mandibulata include
Myriapoda and insecta
Orders of the class myriapoda include
Symphylum, diplopoda, Chilopoda and ….
The orders of the class insecta include
Hymenoptera( bee, wasp), diptera( housefly), orthoptera(cockroach), isoptera, odonata( dragon fly and damsel fly), thysanura (book worm), diphura,stc
The term apterogytes refers to
Wingless insects
Ptetogytes refers to
Insects with wings or whose wings have been secondarily lost
Grasshopper and cricket belong to the order
Orthoptera
Examples of insects in the class lepidoptera are
Butterflies and moths
The order lepidoptera have
Four large wings with scales
Coleoptera have four pairs of wings with 2 hardened to protect the membranous ones. True or false
True
Orthoptera (grasshopper and crickets) possess
Four wings with jumping hind legs
Cockroach belongs to the order
Blattodea
The order….. consist s of organisms with two pairs of similar wings that may not be folded or may be folded vertically on the body
Odonata( dragon flies, the first type; damsel flies, the second type)
Insects with a single pair of wings with conscupicuous veins belong to the order
Diptera
Insects in the class homoptera have
2 pairs of membranous wings held in a tent-like position above the body
Examples of homopterans are
Aphids, cicadas
Hemiptera means
Half-wings
Hemiptera means
Half-wings
