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BSX-2017 - Invertebrates Exam > Insect Orders > Flashcards

Insect Orders Flashcards

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Myriapoda

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‘numberless feet’

Millipedes, centipedes, symphyla, pauropoda

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2
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Protura

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‘first tail’

Coneheads

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3
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Collembola

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‘sticky peg’

Springtails, snow fleas

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Diplura

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‘double tail’

Entrophs, japygids, two-pronged bristletails

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5
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Apterygota

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‘wingless’

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Archaeognatha

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‘ancient jaws’

Jumping bristletails

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Zygentoma (formerly Thysanura)

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‘fringed tail’

Silverfish, fishmoth, firebrats, three-pronged bristletails

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Pterygota

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‘winged’

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Paleoptera

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‘old wings’ (cannot be folded)

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Ephemeroptera

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‘living for a day’

Mayflies (egg, nymphs, subimago, adult)

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Odonata

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‘toothed flies’

Damselflies, dragonflies

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Neoptera

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‘new wings’ (can be folded)

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Exopterygota

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'wing formation visible at the outside of immatures'
Hemimetabolous insects (egg, nymphs (naiads), adult)
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14
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Plecoptera

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‘wickerwork wings’

Stoneflies

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Isoptera (now Blattodea)

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‘equal wings’

Termites, white ants

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Blattodea

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‘insect avoiding light’

Roaches, cockroaches

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17
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Mantodea

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‘like a prophet’

Praying mantids

18
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Grylloblattodea

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‘cricket-like cockroaches’

Rock crawlers, ice crawlers

19
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Mantophasmatodea

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‘between Mantodea and Phasmatodea’

Heel walkers

20
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Phasmatodea

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‘like a ghost’

Leaf insects, stick insects, walking sticks

21
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Orthoptera

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‘straight wings’

Grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, katydids

22
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Dermaptera

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‘leathery wings’

Earwigs

23
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Embioptera

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‘lively wings’

Web-spinners

24
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Zoraptera

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‘pure wings’

Angel insects

25
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Phthiraptera

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‘louse wings’

Biting and sucking lice

26
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Psocoptera

A

‘milled wings’

Booklice, barklice, psocids

27
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Hemiptera

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‘half wings’

Leafhoppers, scale insects

28
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Heteroptera (suborder)

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‘different wings’

True bugs

29
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Homoptera

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‘uniform wings’

Leafhoppers, planthopers, treehoppers, cicadas, aphids, scale insects, whiteflies, psyllids, spittlebugs, ground pearls

30
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Thysanoptera

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‘fringed wings’

Thrips

31
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Endopterygota

A 
'wing formation not visible at the outside in immatures'
Holometabolous insects (egg, larvae, pupa, adult)
32
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Diptera

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‘two wings’

True flies, mosquitoes, midges, fruit flies, hover flies, robber flies, sand flies, tsetse flies

33
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Siphonaptera

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‘tube without wings’

Fleas

34
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Mecoptera

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‘long wings’

Hangingflies, scorpionflies

35
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Lepidoptera

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‘scaly wings’

Butterflies, moths

36
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Trichoptera

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‘hairy wings’

Caddisflies

37
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Hymenoptera

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‘membrane wings’

Ants, bees, wasps, sawflies, fairyflies

38
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Raphidioptera

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‘embroidered wings’

Snakeflies

39
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Megaloptera

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‘large wings’

Alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies

40
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Neuroptera

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‘net veined wings’

Lacewings, antlions, owlflies

41
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Strepsiptera

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‘twisted wings’

Stylops

42
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Coleoptera

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‘sheath wings, hard wings’

Beetles, weevils, cockchafer (maybugs), fireflies, ladybirds

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