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Often brown/black; elongated and flattened body; compound eyes are large, small, or absent; chewing mouthparts; long filiform antennae; forcep like cerci (straight in females, curved in males); winged/wingless; forewings are tegmina; hind wings are membranous, rounded, and folded

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Order Dermaptera (earwigs)

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Brown/yellow/black; body flattened; antennae long/filiform; cerci usually long; four membranous wings, forewings long/narrow, hind wings shorter; wings flattened over body
Naiads: elongated/flattened body; long antennae and cerci; branched/filamentous gills

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Order Plecoptera (stoneflies)

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Elongated with cylindrical bodies; chewing mouthparts; prognathous heads; antennae long/filiform; tarsi 3-segmented; foreleg tarsi elongated (contains silk glands); short legs, hind legs longer; males = two wings, females = wingless

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Order Embioptera (web-spinners)

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Very small; long/monofiliform antennae; hind femora enlarged; winged (brown, large compound eyes) or wingless (unpigmented, no eyes)

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Order Zoraptera (zorapteran)

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Very small; soft body; round head; large bulbous clypeus (plate on head); long filiform antennae; large compound eyes; ocelli present (only in winged species); chewing mouthparts

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Order Psocoptera

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Order Psocoptera; 4 membranous wings held rooflike; usually found outdoors

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Order Psocoptera

Barklice

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Order Psocoptera; smaller than other Psocids; no wings; hind femora enlarged; usually inside

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Order Psocoptera

Booklice

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Ectoparasites of birds and mammals; small and wingless; body dorso-ventrally flattened; compound eyes reduced or absent; short antennae and short legs; apex of tibia with “thumblike” process; tarsi one segmented with a single large claw.

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Order Phthiraptera (lice)

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Order Phthiraptera; Largest group (divided into 3 suborders); Have sharp, pointed mandibles; Wide head; longest body

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Order Phthiraptera

Chewing lice

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Order Phthiraptera; have sucking mouthparts with stylets concealed into a pouch; narrow, conical head; sucking lice

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Order Phthiraptera
Sucking lice (two subgroups)
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Order Phthiraptera; sucking lice; stout legs; enlarged abdomen

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Order Phthiraptera
Sucking lice
Body and head lice

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Order Phthiraptera; sucking lice; delicate forelegs with long/slender claws; other legs are stout with short/stout claws; abdomen is short/stout

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Order Phthiraptera
Sucking lice
Pubic lice

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Hemelytra; clavus; scutellum; wings held flat over body; piercing-sucking mouthparts (found along ventral side of body); long antennae in terrestrial bugs; compound eyes; maybe ocelli

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Order Hemiptera (true bugs)

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Phytophagous; presence of a cuneus (piece of corium that looks different) and only one or two closed cells at the base of the membranous part of the hemelytra; no ocelli; phytophagous

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Order Hemiptera
Family Miridae (plant bugs)
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Phytophagous; bright red and black; four or five simple veins in the membranous part of hemelytra

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Order Hemiptera
Family Lyegaeidae (seed bugs)
small milkweed bug

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Phytophagous; small; black & white wings; four-five simple veins
Nymphs: red abdomen

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Order Hemiptera
Family Blissidae (Chinch bugs)
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Phytophagous; medium-sized, elongated and dark-coloured; head narrower and shorter than the pronotum; hind tibia often expanded and leaflike; well-developed scent glands that open on the underside of the metathorax; some males have enlarged hind femora with sharp spines.

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Order Hemiptera
Family Coreidae (leaf-footed bugs)
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Phytophagous; reddish-brown; white zigzag line (sometimes pale) on the corium; slightly enlarged hind tibia

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Order Hemiptera
Family Coreidae
Leptoglossus occidentalis (western conifer seedbug)

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Phytophagous; large pronotum; large triangular scutellum; five segmented antennae (other families are four); slender rostrum

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Order Hemiptera
Family Pentatomidae (stink bug)
Subfamily Pentatominae

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Predaceous; enlarged rostrum; large pronotum; large triangular scutellum; five segmented antennae (other families are four)

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Order Hemiptera
Family Pentatomidae (stink bug)
Subfamily Asopinae

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Predaceous; head elongated; rostrum short and 3 segmented (tip fits into prosternum groove); widened abdomen in middle

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Order Hemiptera
Family Reduviidae (assassin or ambush bugs)
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Common assassin bug; adult is dark brown/black; elongated body
Nymphs: cover themselves with dust for cover

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Order Hemiptera
Family Reduviidae
Reduvius personatus (masked hunter)

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Subgroup of assassin bug; broader and stouter; black & yellow; spiny thorax; raptorial forelegs (elongated coxae and enlarged femora)

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Order Hemiptera
Family Reduviidae
Subfamily Phymatinae (ambush bugs)

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Dorsoventrally flattened; broadly oval; wingless; 4 segmented antennae; compound eyes; blood feeders

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Order Hemiptera
Family Cimicidae (bed bugs)
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Semi-aquatic (antennae bigger than head; large eyes); tarsi covered in fine hairs; short front legs for capturing prey; middle/hind legs long for locomotion; black; narrow/long body; winged or wingless

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Order Hemiptera
Family Gerridae (water striders)
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Fully aquatic; Long respiratory siphon at end of abdomen; well-developed wings; predaceous; well-defined piercing-sucking mouthpart; slender/elongated body; long legs

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Order Hemiptera
Family Nepidae (water scorpion)
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Fully aquatic; predaceous; well-developed piercing-sucking mouthparts; elongated/oval/flattened body; raptorial forelegs; middle/hind legs flattened with hairs; small retractable siphon on abdomen; wings well developed

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Order Hemiptera

Family Belostomatidae

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Fully aquatic; predaceous; well-developed piercing-sucking mouthparts; elongated/oval/flattened body; raptorial forelegs; middle/hind legs flattened with hairs; small retractable siphon on abdomen; wings well developed

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Order Hemiptera
Family Belostomatidae (giant water bugs)
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Fully aquatic; elongated/oval/slightly flattened body; dark grey; dorsal surface of body cross-lined; hind legs are oar-like and fringed; forelegs have unsegmented tarsi that are scooped and fringed; short/broad head; beak fused to head; no piercing-sucking mouthparts

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Order Hemiptera
Family Corixidae (water boatmen)
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Fully aquatic; predaceous; piercing-sucking mouthparts; convex dorsal side of body; light color; flat ventral side; forelegs adapted to grasp prey; hindlegs oarlike and fringed

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Order Hemiptera
Family Notonectidae (back swimmers)
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Front wings if present, with uniform texture, either leathery or membranous, held rooflike over body; opstognathous;

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Order Hemiptera

Homopterans

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Small, soft bodied, pear-shaped. Pair of cornicles secretes defensive substance and alarm pheromone. Winged or wingless.

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Order Hemiptera
Homopterans
Suborder Sternorrhyncha
Family Aphididae (aphids)

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Female wingless, legless and sessile. Females secrete scalelike material to cover themselves.

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Order Hemiptera
Homopterans
Suborder Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily Coccoidea
Scale insects
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Female wingless, have well developed legs. Females secrete a waxy, powdery secretion to cover themselves. Adult males lack mouthparts, they have long stylelike process at end of abdomen. Hind wings are reduced to small haltere-like processes that terminate in a hooked bristle

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Order Hemiptera
Homopterans
Suborder Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily Coccoidea
Family Pseudococcoidea (mealybugs)
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Largest of the “homopterans”. Wings held rooflike over body. Males have tymbals and tympana on first abdominal segment. Tymbals are coming out of second tergite. Tymbals are concealed in some species. Tympanum lies below tymbal and is covered by a plate-like structure known as the operculum.

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Order Hemiptera
Homopterans
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha
Family Cicadidae (cicadas)

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Cicada; small, reddish eyes and reddish wing veins. Tymbals well visible.

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Order Hemiptera
Homopterans
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha
Family Cicadidae
Genus Magicicada (periodical cicada)
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Cicada; larger, greenish markings. Tymbals concealed.

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Order Hemiptera
Homopterans
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha
Family Cicadidae
Genus Neotibicen (annual cicada or dog-day cicada)
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Suborder Auchenorrhyncha; One or more rows of spines extending the length of the hind tibiae

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Order Hemiptera
Homopterans
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha
Family Cicadellidae (leafhoppers)

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Suborder Auchenorrhyncha; Pronotum that covers the head, and extend back over abdomen

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Order Hemiptera
Homopterans
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha
Family Membracidae (treehoppers)

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Suborder Auchenorrhyncha; hind tibiae with 1 or 2 stout spines laterally and a crown of short spines at tip.

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Order Hemiptera
Homopterans
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha
Family Cercopidae (froghoppers & spittlebugs)

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Very small, slender-bodied. Wings present or absent. When present, 4 long and narrow wings with few or no veins and fringed with long hairs. Sucking mouthparts. Short antennae.

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Order Thysanoptera (thrips)

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