Insect Orders Flashcards
What is the name of insects with no wings?
Apterygota
What is the name of insects whose wings develop externally?
Exopterygota
What is the name of insects whose wings develop internally?
Endopterygota
What is the order for silver fish?
Zygentoma
What is the order for spring tails?
Collembola
What is the order of mayflies?
Ephemoptera
What is the order for dragonflies and damselflies?
Odonata
What are the two sub orders for dragonflies and damselflies?
Dragonflies: Anisoptera
Damselflies: Zygoptera
What is the order for stoneflies?
Plecoptera
What is the order for earwigs and what are cerci?
Dermaptera
Modified as forceps
What insects are in the order Orthoptera?
Grasshoppers, locusts, katydids and crickets
What are the two sub orders for Orthoptera?
Caelifera: grasshoppers and locusts
Ensifera: Wetas and crickets
What is the order for stick and leaf insects?
Phasmatodea
What is the order for mantids?
Mantodea
What is the order for cockroaches and termites?
Blattodea
What is the order for true bugs?
Hemiptera
What are the two sub orders of Hemiptera?
Heteroptera: bugs
Homoptera: cicadas, leafhoppers, aphids
What is the order for lacewings and antlions?
Neuroptera
What is the order for beetles?
Coleoptera
What are the four sub orders of Coleoptera?
Adephaga
Polyphaga (ladybird)
Archostemata
Myxophaga
What is the order for true flies?
Diptera
What are the two sub orders of Diptera?
Nematocera and Brachycera
What is the order of scorpion flies?
Mecoptera
What’s the order for fleas?
Siphonaptera
What is the order for caddisflies?
Trichoptera
What is the order for moths and butterflies?
Lepidoptera
What are the four sub orders of Lepidoptera?
Glossata: butterflies and moths
Micropterigoidea
Agathiphagoidea
Heterobathmiodia
What is the order that bees ant and wasps are in?
Hymenoptera
What are the two sub orders of hympenoptera?
Symphata: wood wasps and sawflies
Apocrita: wasps bees and ants
