Insect Orders

Question 1

Myriapoda

Answer 1

‘numberless feet’

Millipedes, centipedes, symphyla, pauropoda

Question 2

Protura

Answer 2

‘first tail’

Coneheads

Question 3

Collembola

Answer 3

‘sticky peg’

Springtails, snow fleas

Question 4

Diplura

Answer 4

‘double tail’

Entrophs, japygids, two-pronged bristletails

Question 5

Apterygota

Answer 5

‘wingless’

Question 6

Archaeognatha

Answer 6

‘ancient jaws’

Jumping bristletails

Question 7

Zygentoma (formerly Thysanura)

Answer 7

‘fringed tail’

Silverfish, fishmoth, firebrats, three-pronged bristletails

Question 8

Pterygota

Answer 8

‘winged’

Question 9

Paleoptera

Answer 9

‘old wings’ (cannot be folded)

Question 10

Ephemeroptera

Answer 10

‘living for a day’

Mayflies (egg, nymphs, subimago, adult)

Question 11

Odonata

Answer 11

‘toothed flies’

Damselflies, dragonflies

Question 12

Neoptera

Answer 12

‘new wings’ (can be folded)

Question 13

Exopterygota

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Plecoptera

Answer 14

‘wickerwork wings’

Stoneflies

Question 15

Isoptera (now Blattodea)

Answer 15

‘equal wings’

Termites, white ants

Question 16

Blattodea

Answer 16

‘insect avoiding light’

Roaches, cockroaches

Question 17

Mantodea

Answer 17

‘like a prophet’

Praying mantids

Question 18

Grylloblattodea

Answer 18

‘cricket-like cockroaches’

Rock crawlers, ice crawlers

Question 19

Mantophasmatodea

Answer 19

‘between Mantodea and Phasmatodea’

Heel walkers

Question 20

Phasmatodea

Answer 20

‘like a ghost’

Leaf insects, stick insects, walking sticks

Question 21

Orthoptera

Answer 21

‘straight wings’

Grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, katydids

Question 22

Dermaptera

Answer 22

‘leathery wings’

Earwigs

Question 23

Embioptera

Answer 23

‘lively wings’

Web-spinners

Question 24

Zoraptera

Answer 24

‘pure wings’

Angel insects

Question 25

Phthiraptera

Answer 25

'louse wings' | Biting and sucking lice

Question 26

Psocoptera

Answer 26

'milled wings' | Booklice, barklice, psocids

Question 27

Hemiptera

Answer 27

'half wings' | Leafhoppers, scale insects

Question 28

Heteroptera (suborder)

Answer 28

'different wings' | True bugs

Question 29

Homoptera

Answer 29

'uniform wings' | Leafhoppers, planthopers, treehoppers, cicadas, aphids, scale insects, whiteflies, psyllids, spittlebugs, ground pearls

Question 30

Thysanoptera

Answer 30

'fringed wings' | Thrips

Question 31

Endopterygota

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Diptera

Answer 32

'two wings' | True flies, mosquitoes, midges, fruit flies, hover flies, robber flies, sand flies, tsetse flies

Question 33

Siphonaptera

Answer 33

'tube without wings' | Fleas

Question 34

Mecoptera

Answer 34

'long wings' | Hangingflies, scorpionflies

Question 35

Lepidoptera

Answer 35

'scaly wings' | Butterflies, moths

Question 36

Trichoptera

Answer 36

'hairy wings' | Caddisflies

Question 37

Hymenoptera

Answer 37

'membrane wings' | Ants, bees, wasps, sawflies, fairyflies

Question 38

Raphidioptera

Answer 38

'embroidered wings' | Snakeflies

Question 39

Megaloptera

Answer 39

'large wings' | Alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies

Question 40

Neuroptera

Answer 40

'net veined wings' | Lacewings, antlions, owlflies

Question 41

Strepsiptera

Answer 41

'twisted wings' | Stylops

Question 42

Coleoptera

Answer 42

'sheath wings, hard wings' | Beetles, weevils, cockchafer (maybugs), fireflies, ladybirds