Insect Orders and Suborders Flashcards
Mecoptera
1
hang flyes
sorpion flys
long faces

Suborder: Anoplura
1
sucking lice
drinking blood
claws
smallhead
look at the anntant smallish

Suborder: Caelifera
Acrididae- short horned
Tetrigidae- pigmy grasshopper
Romaleidae- Lubbers
anntana does not go back to the adbmon

Acari
ticks and
mites- small
big and flat

Embiidina
Males are winged
Look at the large frount leg
had no spes
small bugs slide mounted
thread like anntana

Scorpionida
1
Suborder : Amblycera
Big head
stubby body
narrow throax
mlaofica chewing lice

Archeognatha
Jumping bristetails
jaws
small head
Long cerie
big eyes

Diplura
They have 2 tails
NO eyes and can not see mouthparts
no wings
long annta
long tails

*Suborder Nematocera
the delicate looking flies
look BACK AT THIS ONE
long anntat
crane flys

Araneida
8 legs

Thysanoptera
1
Thrips
they have eyes
fringed wings
have madileds
anntat

Diptera Suborders
A. Nematocera B. Brachycera
Isoptera
1
winged adules
frount wings and hind wings the same
reduced eyes
no ceries
Blattodea
look at the head.
cant see

Suborder: Heteroptera
true bugs
leather wings
no cerie
sucking

Streosiotera
twisted wing fly
no spes
MALES look odd. look them up

Collembola
Small with out wings
springtails
swelled abdimen for water
HAVE eyes
NO ceries
can not see jaws

Suborder: Megaloptera
1

Siphonaptera
fleas

Suborder Adephage
1
LOOK BACK AT
ground beetles
Prodaues diving
Whilegig beeltes
crwagin wtaer beetles ??
Protura
12 abdominal segments
front legs used as antenae
no eye
no mouthparts you can see
no crire(tail)
no spes

Phthiraptera Suborders
A. Anoplura B. Amblycera
*Suborder: Symphyta
1
4 wings
chewing mouth parts
saltflys

Orthoptera Suborders
A. Caelifera B. Ensifera
Hymenoptera Suborders
A. Symphyta B. Apocrita
Suborder: Ensifera
Tettigoniidae- Kaydids
Gryllidae- Crickets
Gryllacrdidae- brush crickets
Gryllotapidae- Mole crickets
Rhaphidoporidae- camel cricket
long antenna
thred like annrena

Dermaptera
1
cerei is harded
short forund wings
can see head

Neuroptera Suborders
A. Megaloptera
Lepidoptera
1

Trichoptera
cadishflies
have mouthparts

Hemiptera suborders
A. Heteroptera B. Auchenorrhyncha C. Sternorrhyncha
Ephemeroptera
4 wings
frount wings large triangular
hind wings small
Antennae short
2 or 3 tails

Mantodea
1
frount weng is leather
has full wings

Odonata Suborders
A. Anisoptera B. Zygoptera
Suborder: Brachycera
The big boy flies
the green leg flys
sciomyzidae look at
Bombyliidae llok at
green bottole flies llok at
short anntana

Thysanura
reduced eyes
no ocelli
reduced maxillary palpi

\Coleoptera suborders
A. Adephage B. Polyphage
Suborder: Apocrita
1
narow con betewn the throxa and adoment
ants
velet ants

Plecoptera
Stoneflys
Ocelli
Pronotum
Glossa Paraglossa
long anntan
long tail???
HAS AN ODD ONE

Zoraptera
Beaded antennae
Cerci short 1 segment
NOOOO eyes
no spes
males have wings

Phasmatodea
Long filiform antennae
Mandibulate mouthparts
tarsi 5
no ceris
the fround legs on the frount thorx
have a knot near the head for the legs

Diptera
1

Phthiraptera
Lice
short annta

Suborder: Zygoptera
Calopterygidae- broadwinded damselfies
Coenagrioidae- Narrow winded
Lesridae- damselfiles spread

Psocoptera
Bark lice
big heads- penuts like head
big eyes
long thread like anntana
can be colore
no ciers

Suborder: Epiprocta
A mix of damselfiles and dragonflies
no spes

*Suborders Polyphage
1
LOOK BACK AT
darking beetles
scrabs
Suborder: Anisoptera
Aeshnidae- Darners
Gomphidae-clubtail
Cordulegastroidea- spik tails
Libelluloidea- skimmers
large wings

Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Chest + beak
small stuff
white flys
aphids
do not make noise

Grylloblattodea
Ice crawlers
no spes
small
looks like a cricket
ceris like a cricket
thread like anntat

*Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Neck + beak
plant hopper
leaf hoppers

Mantophasmatodea
Heal walkers
look differnt
no spes
