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Lab final - Lab 2 Flashcards

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Entognatha (mouthparts within folds of the head); elongated body; distinct conical head; lacking antennae & eyes; forelegs are enlarged and held forward. Cerci absent

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Order Protura (Proturans)

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Entognathous; body globular or elongated; variable in color; abdomen has forked structure (furcula) on ventral side of fourth abdominal segment and ventral tube (collophore) on first abdominal segment

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Order Collembola (Springtails)

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Entognathous; long slender antennae; compound eyes and ocelli are absent; abdomen with two prominent cerci

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Order Diplura (diplurans)

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Ectongathous; chewing mouthparts developed but weak; body cylindrical; thorax arched dorsally; body covered with scales; large compound eyes often touching the middle; ocelli present; long antennae; medial caudal filament and cerci present (cerci shorter)

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Order Archaeognatha (bristletails)

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(same as bristletails except) body elongated and somewhat flattened; compound eye are small and widely separated or sometimes absent; ocelli present or absent; cerci almost equal to medial caudal filament; abdominal appendages present

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Order Zygentoma

Silverfish (covered with silvery scales) & firebrats (yellowish-brown body)

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Four membranous wings with many veins, forewings are large & triangular, hind wings are small & rounded; antennae small, bristelike; mouthparts vestigial; male compound eyes large, female smaller; front legs in front of body
Look like damselflies with long caudal filaments/cerci and forelegs in front
Nymphs: chewing mouthparts, naiads, modified labium

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Order Ephemeroptera (mayflies)

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Forewings and hindwings dissimilar in size and shape, base of hindwings wider than forewings; elongated head (same width as thorax)
Naiads: stout body; head narrow; gill pads in rectum

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Order Odonata
Suborder Anisoptera (dragonflies)
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Often brightly colored; 2 pairs of elongated, veined wings; large compound eyes; small antennae; chewing mouthparts; small thorax; long/slender abdomen; cerci are clasping in males

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Order Odonata

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Forewings and hindwings similar in size/shape; base of wings narrow; head transversely elongated (wider than thorax)
Naiad: slender body; head wider than thorax; leaflike gills

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Order Odonata 
Suborder Zygoptera (damselflies)
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Body elongated; cylindrical and sticklike

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Order Phasmatodea
Walking stick
One Candian species (Diapheromera femorata; Northern walking stick)

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Body flattened, leaf-like; don’t always have wings (if do forewings are leathery (tegmina)); chewing mouthparts; compound eyes are small; males: antennae long and slender, females: antennae shorter; short cerci; concealed ovipositor

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Order Phasmatodea

Leaf insect

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Four wings; forewings leathery/thickened (tegmina); hind wings membranous, folded beneath forewings; chewing mouthparts; hind legs enlarged (saltatorial); cerci well developed

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Order Orthoptera

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Often gray/brown; hind wings colorful; antennae much shorter than body; thick/stout ovipositor; tympana on sides of first abdominal segment; males have stridulatory organs; three or less segmented tarsi

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Order Orthoptera
Suborder Caelifera (Short-horned orthoptera)
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Same as caelifera description. Tympanum present on first abdominal segment

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Order Orthoptera
Suborder Caelifera
Family Acrididae (grasshoppers)
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Large, colorful caelifera

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Order Orthoptera
Suborder Caelifera
Family Romaleidae (lubber grasshopper)
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Pronotum extends over abdomen; tegmina reduced; no auditory/stridulatory organ

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Order Orthoptera
Suborder Caelifera
Family Tetrigidae (pygmy grasshopper)
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Often green/brown; long/fine antennae; tympana at base of front tibiae; stridulatory organs on forewings in males

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Order Orthoptera
Suborder Ensifera (long-horned orthoptera)
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Robust; black/brown; ovipositor is needelike

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Order Orthoptera
Suborder Ensifera
Family Gryllidae (field/house crickets)

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In family Gryllidae; slender, whitish or pale green; transparent forewings

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Order Orthoptera
Suborder Ensifera
Family Gryllidae
Subfamily Oecanthinae (tree cricket)

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Usually green; laterally flattened; long, thick ovipositor, sometimes curved upward

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Order Orthoptera
Suborder Ensifera
Family Tettigoniidae (katydids)

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Humpbacked shape; wingless

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Order Orthoptera
Suborder Ensifera
Family Rhaphidophoridae (camel cricket)

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Head and abdomen large; short legs; wingless

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Order Orthoptera
Suborder Ensifera
Family Stenopelmatidae (Jerusalem cricket)

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Enlarged digging (fossorial) legs; finely haired

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Order Orthoptera
Suborder Ensifera
Family Gryllotalpidae (mole cricket)

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Body slender, elongated, finely haired and pale; wingless; small/no eyes; no ocelli; antennae long and filiform; chewing mouthparts; long cerci

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Order Grylloblattodea (rock crawler)

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Prothorax elongated; raptorial forelegs with long coxae and strong spines; chewing mouthparts; filiform antennae; head triangular; well-developed compound eyes; tegmina forewings; has ootheca

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Order Mantodea (Mantids)

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Order Mantodea; small size (about 5cm); presence of black spots at foreleg armpits

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Order Mantodea
Mantis religiosa (praying mantis)
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Order Mantodea; large species (about 7-10cm); brown with tegmina with green margin

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Order Mantodea
Tenodera sinensis (chinese mantis)
28
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Dorsoventrally flattened body; oval; head concealed by pronotum; chewing mouthparts; antennae long/filiform; cursorial legs; wings present or absent; tegmina; legs with spines (usually); has ootheca

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Order Blattodea (cockroaches)

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Order Blattodea; light brown with two longitudinal stripes on pronotum; well developed wings but flightless

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Order Blattodea
Blattella germanica (german cockroach)
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Order Blattodea; shiny; dark brown; short, non-functional wings (females = stubs; males = 3/4 of body)

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Order Blattodea
Blatta orientalis (oriental cockroach)
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Order Blattodea; reddish/brown; 2 spots on pronotum (look like eye mimicry); well developed wings

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Order Blattodea
Periplaneta americana (american cockroach)
32
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Antennae monofiliform or filiform; chewing mouthparts; caste system;

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Order Blattodea
Suborder Isoptera (termites)
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Suborder Isoptera; two pairs of wings; forewings and hindwings similar in shape/size and veinless; wings are longer than body (female wings fall off after reproduction); enlarged abdomen; small head

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Order Blattodea
Suborder Isoptera (termites)
Reproductive caste

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Suborder Isoptera; usually pale and weakly scletorized

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Order Blattodea
Suborder Isoptera (termites)
Workers

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Suborder Isoptera; wingless; large; elongated and well sclerotized head; no eyes; large mandibles

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Order Blattodea
Suborder Isoptera (termite)
Soldiers
Exception: subfamily Nasutitermitinae have no mandibles but instead a projected snout

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