Diptera, thru Hymenoptera

Question 1

Suborder Nematocera

Answer 1

cn: long-horned flies
filiform antennae and usually thin bodied

Question 2

% Tipulidae

Answer 2

cn: craneflies or snowflies
large, lack occeli, large haltorial wings (2 anal veins)

Question 3

% Ptychopteridae

Answer 3

cn: phantom crane flies
1 anal vein, radial vein 5 branched

Question 4

% Psychodidae

Answer 4

cn: mothflies, drainflies, sandflies

Question 5

% Culicidae

Answer 5

cn: mosquitoes
scaly membranous wings
proboscis, plusome antennae

Question 6

% Chironomidae

m

Answer 6

cn: midges
NO PROBOSCOUS
no scales on wings too!
very plumose antennae

Question 7

suborder Brachycera

Answer 7

cn: shorthorned flies
scoop-like mouths
reduced antennae

Question 8

% Tabanidae

Answer 8

cn: deer, horse flies
stylate antennae
R4 and R5 separate and encompass tip

Question 9

% Asilidae

Answer 9

cn: Robber Flies
Concave stoopid head
piercing mouthparts

Question 10

% Syrphidae

Answer 10

cn: Flower flies, hover flies
r-m cross-vein (doesn’t make it to edge of wing)
aristate antennae

Question 11

Superfamily Muscoidea

Answer 11

the boring flies

Question 12

% Calliphoridae

Answer 12

cn: blow flies
bright metallic colors
artista generally plumose at tip
HYPOPLEURON W BRISTLES

Question 13

% Sarcophagidae

Answer 13

cn: flesh flies
tip of arista bare, base plumose
Hypopleuron w 4 distinct bristles
dull color, evil eyes

Question 14

%Muscidae

Answer 14

cn: house/face flies
dull body, aristate plumose
Hypopleuron w/out bristles

Question 15

% Tachnidae

Answer 15

cn: Tachnid flies
dull body, bare arista
ENLARGED post-scutellum (main trait)
they got brsitles on that Hypopleuron

Question 16

Order Mecoptera

Answer 16

cn: hangingflies, scorpionflies
2 pairs of long membranous wings
long snout, large conspicuous eyes
very romantic

Question 17

% Bittacidae

Answer 17

cn: hanging flies
tarsi w 1 claw, raptorial 5th segment
abdomen recurved, 2 PAIRS of wings (unlike crane fly)

Question 18

% Panorpidae

Answer 18

cn: scorpion flies
tarsi w 2 claws, wings patterned normally
male abdomen normally w scorpion tail

Question 19

Order Siphonaptera

Answer 19

FLEAS
laterally compressed, secondarily apterous
yummy

Question 20

Order Trichoptera

Answer 20

Long antennae no siphon mouthparts
hairy wings

Question 21

Order Lepidoptera

Answer 21

Siphon mouth parts

Question 22

% Psychidae

Answer 22

cn: bagworms
few scales

Question 23

% Hesperiidae

per

Answer 23

cn: Skippers
clavate w hook
all R veins radiate from discal cell, M not stalked w R
(I call them butterfly moths)

Question 24

% Papiolionidae

Answer 24

cn: swallowtails
spike wingks

Question 25

% Pieridae

Answer 25

cn: Sulfers, whites,
(cabbage butterflies) divided claws

Question 26

% Lycaenidae

fancy

Answer 26

cn: Gossamer-winged
smal, white scales by eyes

Question 27

% Nymphalidae

Answer 27

cn: brush footed butterflies
reduced prothoracic legs
milkweed butterflies

Question 28

% Geometridae

Answer 28

cn: Geometers
Mc bent at base
very shape
frenulum

Question 29

% Saturniidae

Answer 29

Giant Silkworm moths
very plumose
1 anal vein

Question 30

% Sphingidae

Answer 30

cn: sphinx moths
thicc
stealth bomber shape

Question 31

% Noctuidae

Answer 31

cn: Noctuid moths
wings roof-like
fuzzy M2 arises far down
frenulum

Question 32

% Notodontidae

Answer 32

cn: Prominents, Oakworms
fuzzy butts
M2 far down
discal cell incomplete

Question 33

% Erebidae

bid

Answer 33

cn: Erebid moths

Question 34

subfam Arctiinae

Answer 34

cn: tiger moths
strong coloration and geometric shapes, blacks and oranges

Question 35

subfam Erebenae

ben

Answer 35

cn: Underwing moths
underwing bright colored to confuse predators

Question 36

% Cimbicidae

Answer 36

cn: Cimbicid sawflies
larger then tenthrinidae
abdomen broadly attached
clavate antennae

Question 37

% Tenthrinidae

Answer 37

cn: Common sawflies
THICK fliliform antennae
abdomen broadly attached

Question 38

% Siricidae

Answer 38

cn: horn tails
rigid ovipositor
broadly attached abdomen

Question 39

% Inchneumonidae

Answer 39

cn: Ichneumonid wasps
long filliform antennae
2 recurrent veins
2 troconters
generally long ovipositor

Question 40

% Braconidae

Answer 40

cn: Braconid Wasps
smal
2 troconters – generally shorter ovipositor
1 recurrent vein

Question 41

% Pelecinidae

Answer 41

cn: pelecinid wasps
very long abdomen
parasitoids

Question 42

% Formicidae

form

Answer 42

ants
- petiole

Question 43

% Mutilidae

muti

Answer 43

cn: Velvet ants
soupa hairy yo

Question 44

% Sphecidae

Answer 44

cn: sphecid wasps, mud daubers
wings not folded longitudinally
posterior end of pronotum not curved

Question 45

% Vespidea

Answer 45

cn: Hornets, yellow jackets, paper wasps, potter wasps
wings DO fold longitudinally
curved pronotum around mesonotum

Question 46

% Halictidae

Answer 46

cn: Sweat bees
unbranched hairs
geniculate, strong M vein arch

Question 47

% Apidae

Answer 47

cn: bees
hairs branched, no strong M veins
slightly clavate or geniculate

Question 48

Subfamily Xylocopinae

Answer 48

cn: Carpenter bees
abdomen shiny and not hairy on dorsum
(probably a fly anyways)

Question 49

Subfamily Apinae

Answer 49

cn: Bumble bees, honey bees, (most bees)
hairy abdomen, densely hairy

Question 50

% Chrygididae

Answer 50

cn: Cuckoo wasps
Iridescent, geniculate, Posterior abdomen toothed
hind wings with no closed cells