CRP001 (Entomology) Flashcards

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Types of Antennae
* Pouch-like, with lateral bristles
* Found in Diptera
(Housefly)

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Aristate

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  • Have prominent knob at its end
  • Found in some Lepidopterans and beetles
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Capitate
(Latin: caput [Head])

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  • Terminates in a gradual club/ knob
  • Found in Lepidoptera (Butterflies)
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Clavate
(Latin: clava [Club])

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  • Slender and thread-like in form
  • Found in Blattodea (Cockroaches), Orthoptera (Grasshoppers)
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Filiform
(Latin: filum [Thread])

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  • Similar to a folded paper fan
  • Found in several insect groups
    (Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera)
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Flabellate
(Latin: flabellum [Fan])

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  • Similar to a knee or elbow joint
  • Found in Hymenoptera (Ants,
    Bees)
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Geniculate
(Latin: genu [knee])

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  • Have flattened and nested tip
    segments
  • Found in Coleoptera (Scarab Beetles)
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Lamellate
(Latin: lamella [thin plate])

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  • Have a feather-like appearance
  • Found in mosquitoes and moths
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Plumose
(Latin: pluma [feather])

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  • Have a sawblade-like appearance
  • Found in Pulse Beetles
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Serrate
(Latin: serra [saw])

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  • Have a bristle-like appearance
  • Found in Odonata (Dragonflies, Damselflies)
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Setaceous
(Latin: seta [bristle])

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  • Appears like strings of beads
  • Found in Isoptera (Termite)
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Moniliform
(Latin: monile [necklace]

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the proximal leg segment; generally freely moveable

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Coxa

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Second leg segment; usually
small and single segmented

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Trochanter

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14
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largest and stoutest segment

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Femur

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has downward projecting spines that aids in climbing and footing

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Tibia

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subdivided into “tarsomere”; which varies from one to five; basal tarsal segement is the largest and termed as “bastarsus”

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Tarsi

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  • Legs modified for climbing/ clinging
  • Example: All pairs of legs of head louse
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Scansorial legs

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  • Legs modified for digging/ burrowing
  • Example: Fore legs of mole cricket
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Fossorial legs

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  • Legs modified for
    predation/ grasping
  • Example: Forelegs of preying mantis
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Raptorial legs

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  • Legs modified for swimming
  • Example: Hindlegs of waterbugs and water beetles
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Natatorial legs

21
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  • Legs adapted for assembling and carrying pollen; the “basitarsus” lined with haired is meant for
    carrying pollen termed as “corbiculum”
  • Example: Honeybees
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Pollen carrying legs

22
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  • wing with Light membrane covering
  • Example: Odonata (Dragonfly)
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Membranous

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  • Wing with Half membranous, Half Leathery
  • Example: Hemiptera (True Bugs)
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Hemelytra

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  • Wing Composed of Hairy Fringes
  • Example: Thysanoptera (Thrips)
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Fringed wings

25
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  • Wing that is thicker than membranous wings; Leathery
  • Example: Orthoptera (Grasshoppers), Mantodea (Preying Mantis)
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Tegmen

26
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*wing with Hard Covering
* Example: Coleoptera (Beetles)

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Elytra

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  • wing with Modification of hindwing which helps in balancing and improve flight
  • Example: Hindwing of Diptera (Housefly)
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Haltere

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  • No metamorphosis happens
  • Immature forms resemble the adults
  • Immature Stage is called “Juvenile”
  • Example: primitively wingless insects (Silverfish, Springtails)
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Ametabolous

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  • Gradual metamorphosis happens
  • Immature forms resemble the adults but immature forms has underdeveloped genitalia and has wing pads
  • Occurs in non-aquatic form
  • Immature and Adult forms are both destructive
  • Immature Stage is called “Nymph”
  • Example: Hemiptera, Orthoptera, Blattodea
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Paurometabolous

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  • Incomplete metamorphosis happens
  • Immature forms do not resemble the adults
  • Immature forms have different habitat compared to its adults
  • Immature Stage is called “Naiad”
  • Example: Odonata
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Hemimetabolous

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  • Complete metamorphosis happens
  • Have four distinct life stages: Egg, Larva, Pupa, Adult
  • Immature forms have the same habitat as to its adults
  • Only immature forms are
    destructive
  • Immature Stage is called “Larva”
  • Example: Lepidoptera
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Holometabolous

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  • Generally looks like caterpillars
  • Cylindrical with well-developed head capsule and a short antennae
  • Have both thoracic (true legs) and
    abdominal legs (pseudolegs)
  • Example: Lepidoptera
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Eruciform

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  • Generally looks like grubs
  • Curved or C-shaped with well developed head capsule
  • Have thoracic (true legs) but no abdominal legs (pseudolegs); Slow and sluggish
  • Example: Coleoptera (Scarabaeoidea)
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Scarabeiform

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  • Active and Predatory
  • Slightly flattened, elongated bodies
  • Have well-developed legs, antennae, and cerci
  • Example: Coleoptera, Trichoptera,
    Neuroptera
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Campodeiform

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  • Generally looks like worms, but with sclerotized (hardened) bodies
  • Have short legs and reduced body bristles
  • Have both thoracic (true legs) and abdominal legs (pseudolegs)
  • Example: Coleoptera (Elateridae)
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Elateriform

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  • Generally looks like maggots
  • Elongated bodies that may or may not have well-developed
    headcapsules
  • Example: Diptera
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Vermiform

37
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  • Appendages are fused to the body wall as exoskeleton hardens.
  • Enclosed within a cocoon
  • Example: Lepidoptera, Few Hymenoptera, Diptera (midges, craneflies)
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Obtect

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  • Opposite of obtect pupae; appendages are free and are able to move
  • Lacks cocoon, looks like a mummified adult
  • Example: All insects undergoing complete metamorphosis
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Exarate

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  • Have articulated mandibles (used to chew pupal cell)
  • Tend to be active, exarate with free appendages
  • Example: Neuroptera (Lacewing)
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Decticous

40
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  • Lack functional mandibles; are attached to the head rendering them immobile
  • May be either be obtect or exarate * Example: Adecticous Obtect (Diptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera); Adecticous Exarate (Coleoptera, Hymenoptera)
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Adecticous

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  • Covered with a membrane called “puparium”, a hardened cuticle of the final instar level.
  • Example: Diptera (Brachycera
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Coarctate

42
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_____ Insect orders are found in the Philippines and ____ orders are with Agricultural Importance

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28, 14

43
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KINGDOM:
PHYLUM:
CLASS:

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Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta

44
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  • the “upper lip”; serves as a cover
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Labrum

45
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  • the “pincers”; used to steady the
    food; has 5 segmented palp which is sensory for taste
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Maxillae

46
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  • the “lower lip”; serves as the lower cover
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Labium

47
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  • hard, powerful cutting jaws
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Mandibles

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