Hexapoda Flashcards
“<b>Insects and Myriapoda use their Malpighian tubules for</b>”
excretion
“<b>What are 4 types of insect feeding types?</b>”
crushing mandibles<br></br>tubular sucking mouthparts<br></br>sponging mouthparts<br></br>Siphoning mouthparts
“<b>Name 3 modifications of front legs and 2 modifications of hind legs in insects and who uses them?</b>”
Front legs of preying mantids and dragonflies: prey capture<br></br>Front legs of mole crickets: digging <br></br>Front legs of corixids: swimming<br></br>Hind legs of grasshoppers: jumping <br></br>Hind legs of bees: carrying pollen
“<b>The front legs of mole crickets are used for</b><br></br><img></img>”
digging
“<b>The trachea of insects has rings because?</b>”
“it’s supported by chitin”
“<b>Do insects have lungs?</b>”
No
“<b>What does hameolymph do?</b>”
“doesn’t transfer oxygen, transfers nutrients instead”
“I<b>s the tracheal system the same as the circulatory system in Hexapoda?</b>”
no
“<b>Do sponging mouthparts have a mandible?<br></br></b><img></img>”
No
“<b>Do all insects have a mandible?</b>”
“No, flies with sponging mouth parts don’t and lepitodtera with siphoning probiscus don’t”
“<b>Sponging mouthparts in flies are made up of?</b>”
Labrum with labial lobes: sponge to mop up liquids
“<b>How do siphoning mouthparts work?</b>”
Mandibles usually absent<br></br>Maxillae: long coiled sucking proboscis<br></br>Pharyngeal muscles pump fluid into mouth
“<b>How many antennae do Crustaceans have?</b>”
2 pairs
“<b>What are Tympaneum?</b><br></br><img></img>”
eardrum membrane covering an air sac, nerves send signals to the brain<br></br><br></br>in orthorpetera, they are on the legs
“<b>Why are large spiracles on the thorax?</b>”
so more oxygen can be energized for movement
“<b>Coleoptera go throughHemimetabolous or Holometabolousmetamorphis?<br></br></b><img></img><b><br></br></b>”
holometabolus
“<b>Difference between Hemimetabolous or Holometabolous metamorphis?</b>”
Hemimetabolous: incomplete <br></br>Holometabolous: complete
“<b>Holometabolous metamorphis?</b>”
complete
“<b>Hem<u>i</u>metabolous metamorphis?<br></br></b><img></img>”
“<u>I</u>ncomplete, same food”
“<b>Odonata go through Hemimetabolous or Holometabolous metamorphis?</b>”
hemimetabolous. Niads to Imago
“<b>Orthorptera go through Hemimetabolous or Holometabolous metamorphis?</b>”
hemimetabolous
“<b>Hemiptera go through Hemimetabolous or Holometabolous metamorphis?</b>”
Hemimetabolous
“<b>Dipterago through Hemimetabolous or Holometabolous metamorphis?</b>”
homometabolous
“<b>Hymenoptera go through Hemimetabolous or Holometabolous metamorphis?<br></br></b><img></img><b><br></br></b>”
holometabolous
“<b>Pharyngeal muscles pump fluid into which mouthpart?<br></br></b><img></img><b><br></br><br></br></b>”
Siphoning
“<b>Which mouthpart develops into a porbiscus in Lepidoptera?<br></br></b><img></img><b><br></br></b>”
Maxillae
“<b>What is the function of the Elytra?<br></br></b><img></img><b><br></br></b>”
protect hind wings & stridulation in beetles
“<b>What areHalters in flies?<br></br></b><img></img><b><br></br></b>”
modified hind wings for balance
“<b>What is the defining trait of a Hemiptera?</b><br></br><img></img>”
Rostrum (piericing and sucking)
“<b>What is the defining trait of Coleoptera?<br></br></b><img></img>”
Eyltra
“<b>What is the largest insect family?</b><br></br><img></img>”
weevils
“<b>Diversification of manidble structures are a trait of which Phyla?</b>”
Hexapoda
“<b>"”Proteinaceous and chitin exoskeleton”” describes which phyla?</b>”
Hexapoda<br></br>
“<b>How many pairs of antenna do hexapods have?<br></br></b><img></img><b><br></br></b>”
one pair
“<b>What are ommatidia?<br></br></b><img></img><b><br></br></b>”
compound eyes with many lenses
“<b>How do ommatidia function?</b>”
take in light and brain takes visual information and generates image
“<b>What are the 3 component of a hexapod mouth?<br></br></b><img></img><b><br></br></b>”
maxillae<br></br>labium<br></br>mandibles
“<b>What are maxillae?</b>”
“behind manidbles, sharp, hold and manipulate food so it can be sliced by mandibles. <b>Taste & manipulate food</b>”
“<b>What do manibles do?<br></br></b><img></img>”
jaws; bite off food and pass pieces to mouth
“<b>Which part of the insects mouth tastes food?</b>”
Maxillae
“<b>Locusts and Mantids have what mouthparts</b>”
Chewing mouthparts
“<b>How do mantis mouthparts work?</b>”
manidbles tear off food, and maxillae manipulate food. 5 segement palps
“<b>Chewing mouthparts have a 5 segmented palp for sensory and taste, true or false?</b>”
true
“<b>mosquito and aphid have what mouth parts?<br></br></b><img></img>”
piercing and sucking (mandible and maxillae are needle like)
“<b>How do mosquitos use a stylet?</b>”
Pierce host and suck up fluid like a straw
“<b>What are Naiads?<br></br></b><img></img><b><br></br></b>”
nymph dragonflies
“<b>What are Imagos?</b>”
adult dragonflies
“<b>Which insect order has large hing legs andAposematism?</b>”
Orthoptera
“<b>Which insect order has a flexible diet?</b><br></br><img></img>”
Orthoptera<br></br>
“<b>Which order has sucking/chewing mouthparts, motile head, and 2 wing sets?<br></br></b><img></img><b><br></br></b>”
Hymenoptera
“<b>Do Hymenoptera have an ovipositor?</b><br></br><img></img>”
Yes - used as a stinger
“<b>Taste receptors use ____ in various location (but usually in the mouth)</b>”
hairs/bristles
“<b>Wasps have their taste receptors on thier?</b><br></br><img></img>”
Antenna
“<b>Butterflies have taste receptors on their?</b><br></br><img></img>”
feet
“<b>Diptera have taste receptors on their?<br></br></b><img></img><b><br></br></b>”
wings
“<b>Hymenoptera vs Hemioptera?</b>”
“Hymmenoptera - bees and ants (<span>♀)</span><br></br>Hemiptera - true bugs (half)”
“<b>Hemiptera<br></br></b><img></img><b><br></br></b>”
true bugs
“<b>hymenoptera</b><br></br><img></img>”
ants wasps
“<b>Spiracles are like stomata except…</b>”
“they can’t close”
“<b>Insects have a ____ circulatory system</b>”
open
“<b>Insects have a ventral nerve cord and 3 ganglia. True or false?<br></br></b><img></img><b><br></br></b>”
True
“<b>What are the 3 types of insect ganglia?</b><br></br><img></img>”
“Suboesophageal: motor control and movement of mouthparts<br></br>Thoracic: locomotion and stridulation<br></br>Abdominal: respiration, circulation and reproduction”
“<b>Suboesophageal relates to?</b>”
“head region of ganglia, used for movement<br></br><br></br><img></img>”
“<b>Malpighian tubules in hexapoda and myriapoda are used for</b>”
Excretion
“<b>What is the role of Ostia in Hexapoda?</b>”
perforations allow for hemolymph from body to enter heart
“<b>How does respirtation work in insects?<br></br></b><img></img>”
Air entres spiracles, travels through trachae, and into smaller tracheoles
“<b>What is the exoskeleton in Hexapoda made of?</b>”
protiens & chitin
