Insects

Question 1

Two pairs of wings (front pair thick and leathery, acting as wing cases, back pair
membranous); armored exoskeleton; biting and chewing mouthparts; complete
metamorphosis; largest order of insects

Answer 1

Coleoptera: beetles, weevils

Question 2

Two pairs of membranous wings; chewing or sucking mouthparts; many have
posterior stinging organ on females; complete metamorphosis; many species social;
important pollinators

Answer 2

Hymenoptera: ants, bees, wasps (190,000)

Question 3

One pair of wings with hind wings modified into halteres (balancing organs); sucking,
piercing, or lapping mouthparts; complete metamorphosis; larvae are grublike
maggots in various food sources; some adults are disease vectors

Answer 3

Diptera: flies, mosquitoes (190,000)

Question 4

Two pairs of colorful wings covered with tiny scales; long tubelike tongue for sucking;
complete metamorphosis; larvae are plant-feeding caterpillars; adults are important
pollinators

Answer 4

Two pairs of colorful wings covered with tiny scales; long tubelike tongue for sucking;
complete metamorphosis; larvae are plant-feeding caterpillars; adults are important
pollinators

Question 5

Two pairs of membranous wings; piercing or sucking mouthparts; incomplete
metamorphosis; many plant feeders; some predatory or blood feeders; vectors of
plant diseases

Answer 5

Hemiptera: true bugs; assassin bug,

bedbug, chinch bug, cicada (100,000)

Question 6

Two pairs of wings (front pair leathery, back pair membranous); chewing mouthparts;
mostly herbivorous; incomplete metamorphosis; powerful hind legs for jumping

Answer 6

Orthoptera: crickets, grasshoppers

30,000

Question 7

Two pairs of long, membranous wings; chewing mouthparts; large eyes; predatory
on other insects; incomplete metamorphosis; nymphs aquatic; considered earlydiverging
insects

Answer 7

Odonata: damselflies, dragonflies (6,500)

Question 8

Wingless, laterally flattened; piercing and sucking mouthparts; adults are
bloodsuckers on birds and mammals; jumping legs; complete metamorphosis; vectors
of plague

Answer 8

Siphonaptera: fleas (2,600)

Question 9

Wingless ectoparasites; sucking mouthparts; flattened body; reduced eyes; legs
with clawlike tarsi for clinging to skin; incomplete metamorphosis; very host specific;
vectors of typhus

Answer 9

Phthiraptera: sucking lice (2,400)

Question 10

Two pairs of membranous wings when present; some stages wingless; chewing
mouthparts; social species; incomplete metamorphosis

Answer 10

Isoptera: termites (2,000)