Lab Exam Flashcards
Setaceous
- tapering
- segments become slender distally
filiform
- threadlike
- segments all of uniform size
moniliform
- beadlike
- segments resembling a string of beads
clavate
- clubbed
- segments increased in diameter
capitate
- having a head
- terminal segments enlarge suddenly
Serrate
- sawlike
- segments are triangular in shape
pectinate
- comblike
- most segments have lateral processes
Plumose
- feathery
- most segments have many hairs
aristate
- the last segment with a dorsal bristle (arista)
Stylate
- last segment having elongate terminal style
flabellate
- clubbed
- terminal segments terminal and sheet like, extending laterally
lamellate
- leaflike
- terminal segments form oval lobes
geniculate
- elbowed
- first segment long followed by angled, shorter segments
no metamorphosis
- insects hatch directly from egg resembling mini adult but lack wings
- molting will result in increase in size
- no major modifications between each molt (ametabolous)
- Thysanura
hemimetabolous/ incomplete metamorphosis
- young emerge from eggs someone similar to adults but with very large heads
- juvenile stage is a nymph
- development to adult is done through molts
- some nymphs can be aquatic
- Orthoptera, homoptera, isoptera (cockroaches and termites), hemiptera, odonata, plecoptera, and ephemeroptera
holometabolous/ complete metamorphosis
- egg –> larva –> pupae –> adult
- eggs hatch into segmented worm like larva
- larva feed and grow and undergo many molts
- final molt is into pupal stage which is stationary and non-feeding
- juvenile tissues are reabsorbed and adult organs are formed
- adult emerges from the pupal case
- Coleoptera, diptera, hymenoptera, lepidoptera
hexapoda
- subphylum of arthropoda
Insecta
- class of hexapoda
Thysanura
- order of insecta
- silverfish and bristletails
- wing-less
- two or three styliform appendages on abdomen
- chewing mouthparts
Ephemeroptera
- order of insecta
- mayflies
- wings membranous
- first pair of wings larger than second pair
- two or three caudal appendages and a single tarsal claw
- vestigial chewing mouthparts in adults
- aquatic nymphs have gills on the abdomen dorso-laterally and with caudal filaments
Odonata
- order of insecta
- dragonflies (anisoptera) and damselflies (zygoptera)
- wings membranous
- chewing mouthparts
- dragonfly nymphs have rectal gills
- damselfly nymphs have caudal gills
Plecoptera
- order of insecta
- stoneflies
- reduced mouthparts in adults
- elongate antenna
- long cerci
- tarsi with 2 claws
- membranous wings folded over abdomen at rest
- aquatic nymphs with 2 caudal cerci and gills never dorsolaterally on abdomen
Blattodea
- order of insecta
- cockroaches and termites
- Cockroaches:
- dorsoventrally flattened bodies
- antenna long
- leathery forewings
- termites (isoptera):
- eusocial
- soft-bodied
- antenna short
- wings equal in size and lost in workers
Orthoptera
- order of insecta
- grasshoppers, katydids, crickets, and others
- membranous hindwing folded beneath leathery forewing (tegmina)
- hindleg femur enlarged
- chewing mouthparts
- nymphs are terrestrial
Hemiptera
- order of insecta
- basal part of forewing is thickened while distal part is membranous (hemelytra)
- overlapping wings are rest
- hind wing membranous
- piercing-sucking mouthparts
- suborder homoptera (same winged) have membranous forewings
- includes aphids, cicadas, leafhoppers
Hymenoptera
- order of insecta
- ants, bees, wasps
- winged and wingless
- membranous with few veins
- solitary or eusocial
- mouthparts for chewing, lapping, or sucking
- females with ovipositor specialized for sawing, piercing, or stinging
Coleoptera
- order of insecta
- beetles
- anterior wings are think and hard (elytra)
- chewing mouthparts
- larva stage is called a grub
- some aquatic families
megaloptera
- order of insecta
- alderflies, fishflies, and dobsonflies
- both pairs of wings are membranous
- held in tentlike position at rest
- chewing mouthparts
- aquatic larva
Siphonaptera
- order of insecta
- fleas
- bodies compressed laterally
- wingless
- legs modified for jumping
- piercing- sucking mouthparts
Diptera
- order of insecta
- flies and mosquitoes
- reduced hindwings (halteres)
- filiform antenna
- sponging, sucking, lapping mouthparts
- larva called a maggot
- some aquatic juveniles
Trichoptera
- order of insecta
- caddisfly
- resemble small moths
- body and wings covered in very short hairs
- long antenna in adults
- aquatic larva
- larva have abdominal prolegs and create portable houses held together by silk
Lepidoptera
- order of insecta
- butterflies and moths
- butterfly antenna end in knob
- moth antenna never end in knob
- body and wings covered in scales
- coiled proboscis
- larva called caterpillar
- 3 pairs of thoracic legs, 5 pairs of prolegs
- 6 simple eyes on head
- may be aquatic but usually terrestrial
Neuroptera
- order of insecta
- lacewings, antlions
- similar to megaloptera
dermaptera
- order of insecta
- earwigs
Vermiform
- maggotlike
- body elongated and wormlike
- legless
- with or without well developed head
- diptera, siphonaptera, hymenoptera, some coleoptera and lepidoptera
scarabaeiform
- grub like
- usually curved
- well developed head
- thoracic legs but no abdominal prolegs
- inactive and sluggish
- in some coleoptera
elateriform
- mealworms or wireworm like
- elongated body
- cylindrical
- hard shelled
- thoracic legs very short compared to campodeiform
- short body bristles
- in some coleoptera
campodeiform
- elongated body
- somewhat flattened
- well developed cerci, antenna, and thoracic legs
- active
- neuroptera, trichoptera, coleoptera
Eruciform
- caterpillar like
- presence of thoracic legs and abdominal prolegs
- lepidoptera and some hymenoptera (sawflies)
biting and chewing mouthparts
- mandibulate
piercing and sucking mouthparts
- mosquitoes, fleas, true bugs
- haustellate
- sharp, needle like projection called stylet
- formed by modification of various mouthparts
- sheathed by a modified labium
- mosquitoes (proboscis)
- hemiptera (rostrum)
sucking mouthparts
- honeybee
- chewing wax or wood and sucking and lapping nectar
- labrum is narrow
- mandibles project laterally
- elongated labium and covered in hair (glossa), extendable to probe flowers
sucking/siphoning mouthparts
- butterflies and moths
- haustellate mouthparts lacking stylet
siphon ing tube called proboscis (fused maxillae) - folded and held between labial palps
lapping or sponging mouthparts
- house fly
- non-biting flies
- extrude saliva onto food then laps up the dissolved saliva- food mixture
- elongated labium
- in biting flies mandibles are prominent and used to bite prey
Elytra
- coleoptera
- hardened forewing
- strengthened through sclerotization
- poor for flight
- held static while in air
- used for protection
hemelytra
- hemiptera (heteroptera)
- partially hardened wing
- proxminal region of forewing pigmented and leathery
- distal portion membranous
- membranous shorter hindwings
- forewings cross over one another when folded
tegmina
- orthoptera
- leathery
scales
- lepidoptera
- scales cover the wings
- easily rubbed off
5 divisions of phylum arthopodia (subphylums)
- Trilobita
- Chelicerata
- Myriapoda
- Crustacea
- Hexapoda
Trilobita
- extinct
chelicerata
- 2 body regions or complete fusion into a single unit
- lacking antenna
- first pair of appendages are chelicerae (basis of mouthparts)
- next appendage is pedipalps (handling food)
- 4 pairs of walking legs
- mandibles are not present
- two body sections (prosoma and opisthosoma)
- three classes (merostomata, pycnogonida, arachnida)
Myriapoda
- millipedes and centipedes
- many segments
- one or two pairs of legs on each segment
- uniramous appendages
- single pair of antenna
Crustacea
- mainly aquatic
- biramous appendages
- two pairs of antenna
- mandibles
hexapoda
- insects
- 6 pairs of legs
Merostomata
- class of chelicerata
- horseshoe crab
- long tail spine (telson)
- carapace for shallow burrowing
- compound eyes
- light sensing eyes also present along body
- genital opercula
- gill opercula
- book gills
Arachnida
- class of chelicerata
- 8 jointed legs
- front pair sensory
scorpiones
- order of arachnida
- long mobile tail (metasoma)
- enlarged final segment of tail (telson)
- curved stinger (aculeus)
- anterior prosoma and posterior opisthosoma
- opisothsoma subdivided into metasoma and mesosoma
- spiracles on mesosoma that lead to book lungs
- pectines are comblike sensory organs
- carapace covering dorsal side of prosoma
- simple eyes
- chewing chelicerae
- enlarged pedipalps that are chelate (claws)
Uropygi
- order of arachnida
- whip scorpion
Opiliones
- order of arachnida
- harvestmen
- prosoma and opisthosoma are fused
- long legs hold body elevated from the ground
- single pair of eyes in the middle of the cephalothorax
- leg like pedipalps
- repugnatorial or stink glands
araneae
- order of arachnida
- prosoma has 6 pairs of appendages (chelicerae- fangs, pedipalps, 4 pairs of legs)
- prosoma and opisthosoma are connected by pedicel
- fluid feeders
- carapace
- 2 rows of 4 eyes
- spiracles on epigastric furrow are openings to book lungs on the ventral side of opisthosoma
- 4-6 spinnerettes
Chilopoda
- class of myriapoda
- centipedes
- flattened rigid bodies
- single pair of legs per segment
- two pairs of maxillae
- first pair of body appendage is a poisonous maxilliped with claw of fang like forcipules
- last pair of legs is longer for sensory or defensive purposes
Diplopoda
- class of myriapoda
- millipede
- cylindrical body
- 2 pairs of legs per segment (result of fusion of segments)
- single pair of maxillae on head
Branchiopoda
- class of crustacea
- gills on appendages
- compound eyes
- carapace
Anostraca
- order of brachiopoda
- brine shrimp
- covered in thin cuticle and lacks carapace
- eleven pairs of leaf like appendages (thoracopods or phyllopodia) used for filter feeding and swimming
- pair of compound eyes on flexible stalks
- single eye on centre of head (naupliar eye)
Cladocera
- order of brachiopoda
- water fleas
- (daphnia)
- large second antenna
- compound eye
- epipodites (setose thoracic appendages)
Malacostraca
- class of crustacea
amphipoda
- order of malacostraca
- Hyalella
- laterally flattened shrimp
- no carapace
- gills present on thoracic segments
- large first and second antenna
- paired sessile compound eyes
- 8 pairs of appendages
- head, thorax (pereon), abdomen (pleon + urosome)
isopoda
- order of malacostraca
- woodlouse
- dorsoventrally flattened
- head and first segment fused as cephalon
- no carapace
- 2 pairs of unbranched antenna
- compound eyes not on stalk
- pereon has 7 pairs of unbranched appendages (pereiopods) for crawling
- pleopods used for respiration on ventral side of pleon
decapod
- order of malacostraca
- 10 legs
- shrimp, crabs, lobsters
Caridea
- infraorder of decapods
- true shrimp and prawns
- slender elongated bodies
- slender legs for swimming
- long antenna
Astacidea
- infraorder of decapods
- lobsters and crayfish
- chelae (claws) on first 3 pairs of pereiopods
- first pair large used for crushing
- elongated abdomen
- move by walking
achelata
- infraorder of decapoda
- spiny lobsters
- lack chelae
- elongated first antenna
brachyura
- infraorder of decapoda
- true crabs
- shortened abdomen folded under thorax
- very strong exoskeleton
anomura
- infraorder of decapoda
- hermit crabs, king crabs, mole crabs
- abdomen may be soft
- first pereopods are chelate
- only 4 pairs of kegs are easily visible
Mollusca
- phylum
- internal organs in mantle
- ventral muscular foot for movement and food acquisition
Cephalopoda
- class of mollusca
- reduced shell (internal), except for octopus with none
- well developed brain and complex nervous system
- anterior portaion of foot is modified as arms and tentacles
- muscular mouth region with beak
- ## jet propulsion for movement
gastropoda
- class of mollusca
- snails and slugs
- well developed head
- muscular foot for creeping or swimming
- single asymmetrical shell made of calcium carbonate
pulmonata
- subclass of gastropoda
- terrestrial gastropods that breath with a lung
Conical shell
- cone shaped shell
- limpet shape
planospiral shell
- garden snail shell
spiral
- elongated spiral shell
Bivalvia
- class of molluscs
- no radula
- sensory organs
Polyplacophora
- class of molluscs
- chitons
- dorsoventrally flattened
- shell made of 8 articulating valves
- mantle extends past shell
Asteroidea
- class of echinodermata
- sea stars
- central disc and 5 rays
- oral and aboral side
- ambulacral grooves with tube feet
- madreporite for water vascular system
- papulae important in respiration
- light sensitive terminal tube foot
ophiuroidea
- class of echinodermata
- brittle stars
- madreporite on oral side
- crawling movement with slender arms
- ophiurida (brittle stars) and euryalida (basket stars)
Echinoidea
- class of echinodermata
- urchins
- rigid skeleton (test) and spines that are muscularly moved
- madreporite on aboral surface
- sea urchins are round, sand dollars are flattened
holothuroidea
- class of echinodermata
- sea cucumbers
- internal madreporite
- oral tentacles
crinoidea
- class of echinodermata
- feather star and sea lily
- theca and arms (5-10) called crown
- oral side faces up for filter feeding
- no madreporite
- Bourgueticrinida (sea lilies) and comatulida (feather stars- no stalk)
Hydrozoa
- class of cnidaria
- having polyps and medusa
siponophora
- order of hydrozoa
- Portuguese man of war
anthozoa
- class of cnidaria
- no medusae
hexacorallia
- subclass of anthozoa
- sea anemone
- unbranched tentacles
- basal disc can detach for movement
Octocorallia
- subclass of anthozoa
- soft corals
- sea whip
- do not produce calcium carbonate skeleton
- sclerites as skeleton
- colonial
Annelida
- phylum
- body segmentation
- chitin bristles (setae)
- errantia and sedentaria
polychaete
- not actual group
- includes tube dwellers and clitellata
Hirudinida
- part of clitellates
- leeches
cestoda
- class of platyhelminthes
- tapeworms
clitellate
- class of annelida
- typical earth worm
- “collar” around worm called clitellum
nematoda
- phylum
- round worms
- parasitic
nematomorpha
- phylum
- horsehair worms
- parasitic
oligochaeta
- class of annelids or subclass of clitellata
- earthworms
trematoda
- class of platyhelminthes
- flat worms (flukes)
- parasitic
pycnogonida
- class of arthropoda
- sea spiders