Arthropods

Question 1

Arthropods with heads smaller than their thorax belong to which Order?

Answer 1

Anoplura (sucking lice)

Question 2

What type of food is consumed by arthropods in the Order Anoplura?

Answer 2

blood

Question 3

The majority of the flea lifecycle occurs:

Answer 3

off the host

Question 4

Name the term used to describe the development of dipteran larvae in contaminated wounds when larvae are normally found in garbage or feces.

Answer 4

Facultative myiasis

Question 5

Complex metamorphosis occurs in the following order:

Answer 5

egg-larva-pupa-adult

Question 6

Name the arthropod vector for Trypanosoma cruzi.

Answer 6

Reduviid bug

Question 7

What term is used to describe infestation by mites or ticks?

Answer 7

acariasis

Question 8

Males of which arthropod species feed on the blood of their host?

Answer 8

Stomoxys calcitrans

Question 9

Disease transmission that occurs when a larval tick picks up a pathogen or parasite during a blood meal and transfers it to another host as a nymph or adult is called _________ transmission.

Answer 9

transstadial

Question 10

What is transovarial transmission? What disease can be transmitted this way?

Answer 10

Transovarial or transovarian transmission occurs in certain arthropod vectors as they transmit disease-causing bacteria from parent arthropod to offspring arthropod; Rickettsia rickettsii (Lone Star/American dog tick)