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Thysanura
silverfish - 3 tail like structures - cerci
Collembola
springtails - forcula - no cerci
Ephemeroptera
(mayflies)have vestigial mouthparts, wings held up.
Odonata
dragonflies - large, brightly colored, net like wings, large heads and eyes
Orthoptera
grasshoppers - 2 pairs wings, tegmina, chewing mouthparts, cerci
Phasmatodea
walking sticks - wingless, mimic where they are found (crypsis)
Mantodea
mantids - predaceous - raptorial front legs
Blattodea
cockroaches - oval, flat, pronotum, tegmina, cerci, oothecae
Dermaptera
earwigs - elytra, membranous hindwing, cerci forceps
Isoptera
termites - soft bodied, 4 castes, alate/apterous, hind and forewings the same size
Mallophaga
chewing lice - flat, wingless, head narrower than thorax, chewing mouthparts
Anoplura
sucking lice - flat, wingless, head narrower than thorax, sucking mouthparts
Thysanoptera
thrips - tiny, fringed wings, large eyes, piercing-sucking mouthparts
Neuroptera
lacewings - net like membranous wings held like tents
Lepidoptera
moths/ butterflies - scaly wings
Hymenoptera
bees, wasps, ants- wings joined by hooks, thin waist
Diptera
flies - halteres
Hemiptera – heteroptera
true bugs - hemelytra, piercing sucking mouthparts with beak arising from front of head, scutellum
Hemiptera – Auchenorrhycha
cicadas, leaf hoppers, spittlebugs; short stout beak (polyps, giant season bugs, be the leaf bugs)
Hemiptera – Sternorryncha
sphids, scales, whiteflies; piercing sucking mouthparts with beak arising from underneath head, sedentary, winged, wingless
Hymenoptera – Ichneumonidae/Braconidae
parasitic wasps; waist, long ovipositorin females (4 winged flies, witch tail flies)
Hymenoptera – Formicidae
ants; waist, 2 segmented clubbed antennae
Hymenoptera – Apidae
bees;
Coleoptera – Curculionidae
snout beetles; rostruim
Coleoptera – Scarabaeidae
scarabs; clavate antennae, round
Coleoptera – Chrysomelidae
leaf beetles; oval