Arthropods Flashcards
Meristomata
Horseshoe crabs
Invertebrate eyes
Compound ommatidium
Chelicerata
Prosoma head, opithosoma body. Feeding appendages are chilicerae
Arachnia
Chilicerae and pedipalps
Acari
Ticks: lone star tick = Lyme disease
Mandibulata
Subphylum
Myriapoda
Superclass: orders Chilopoda and Diplopoda
Hexapoda
Entognatha and insecta
Malpighian tubules
Excretion in insects
Diapause
Period of arrested development in egg, larval, or pupal stages
Hemimerabolous
Immature nymphs look like adults
Holometabolous
Egg larva pupa adult
Ephemeroptera
Hemi: Mayfly
Odonata
Hemi: dragonfly
Blattaria
Hemi: cockroach
Mantodea
Hemi: mantids
Isoptera
Hemi: termites
Orthoptera
Hemi: crickets, grasshoppers, locusts
Plecoptera
Hemi: Stoneflies
Hemiptera
Hemi: true bugs giant water bug, male caries young
Homoptera
Hemi: Cicadas and aphids
Neuroptera
Holo: lacewings/ dobsonflies
Coleoptera
Holo: beetles
Diptera
Holo: true flies (1 pair wings)
Lepidoptera
Holo: butterflies and moths
Hymenoptera
Holo: ants, wasps, bees
Crustaceans
Superclass; subphyla: Mandibulata
Cheliped
First let for grasping
Maxillae/peds
For help eating food
Uropod
Fin
Biramous appendage
2 separate appendages in 1
Gastric mill
Has ventral tooth in stomach
Crustacean reproduction
Sexually, but parthenogenesis common in copepods, larva in marine;rare in fresh
Nauplius
Larval stage of crustaceans
Malacostraca
Isopods;potato bug : amphipods;angel shrimp : decapods;crabs, lobster, shrimp
Branchiopoda
Daphnia w/ ephirria : triops : angel shrimp
Ostracoda
Seed shrimp; inside sack, ostrige egg
Copepod
Plankton; single eye
Cirripedia
Barnacles