Lab Midterm identification Flashcards
Lack wings,lack antenna, lack compound eyes, and forelegs held out in front of the body.
Protura
Lack wings, Cerci present( filiform or forcept like) lack compound eyes. Elongate segmented antennae
Diplura
Spring tails, Lack wings, Furcula present, Retinaculum present, Collophore present.
Collembola
Silverfish, lack wings, no compound eyes, 3 POSTERIOR PROJECTIONS( all about equal length) ,Dorsoventrally flattened body. silver scales
Thysanura
Jumping Bristletails, Lack wings. Compound eyes, 3 posterior projections(longer middle one) CYLINDRICAL body, scales
Microcoryphia
Mayflies, Compound eyes, short setaceous antennae, large TRIANGULAR forwings, Small or absent hindwings, long multi segmented cerci,
Ephemeroptera
Stone flies, long antenna and filiform, wings folded back over the body. front wings long and narrow. hindwings shorter than front wings, cerci long and segmented.
Plecoptera
Dragonflies and Damselflies, large compound eyes, short antennae.
Odonata dragon flies- Anisoptera Damselflies- Zygoptera
Walking sticks, leaf insects, resemble sticks, chewing mouthparts
Phasmetodea
Mantids, leatherys forwings.
Mantodea
Cockroaches, Dorsoventually flattened. head hiden by pronotum. long filiform antennae.
Blattodea
rock/ice crawlers, wingless, mandibulate( lower jaw bigger than upper) mouthparts. 5 segmented tarsi. Long cerci.
Grylloblattodea
gladiators, slender antennae, mandibulate mouth parts, cylindrical body, wingless only found in africa.
Mantophasmatodia
Grasshoppers, crickets, katydids jumping hindlegs, two pairs of wings(front leathery)
Orthoptera
Termites, reproductive ones winged, usually white and wingless,
isoptera
9 segmented antennae, mandibulate mouth. resemble small termites.
Zoraptera
Earwigs, incomplete metamorphis. FORCEPT like cerci.
Dermaptera
webspinners, Enlarged basitiarsi forlegs
Embiidina
book/bark lice, winged/wingless, rooflike over body membranous wings.
Psocoptera
thrips, asymetrical peircing mouthparts,VERY NARROW WINGS WITH FRINGE HAIRS. need microscope.
Thysanoptera
chewing lice, wingless. dorsoventurally flattened, grasping legs chewing mouthparts.
Pthiraptera - Mallophaga
sucking lice, wingless grasping legs modified to host, sucking mouthparts
Pthiraptera Anoplura
True bugs, piercing sucking mouthparts, some with hemelytra. triangle.
Hemiptera
Beetles, Hardened Forewings.
Coleoptera
twisted winged parasites, compound eye “raspberries”, often branched antennae
Strepsiptera
lace wings, antlions, owlflies, two pairs of wings with many cross veins. Antennae-long
Neuroptera
Ants, bees, wasps,sawflies, 2 pairs of wings. can have triangluar stigma in front wing.
Hymenoptera
Elongated Head with chewing mouth parts,
Mecoptera
Wings covered in hairs and held tentlike over body-
Tricoptera
Butterflies and Moths
Lepidoptera
fleas, latterally flattened
Siphonaptera
Flies, one pair of wings. second pair are halteres.
Diptera
