Lab Midterm identification

Question 1

Lack wings,lack antenna, lack compound eyes, and forelegs held out in front of the body.

Answer 1

Protura

Question 2

Lack wings, Cerci present( filiform or forcept like) lack compound eyes. Elongate segmented antennae

Answer 2

Diplura

Question 3

Spring tails, Lack wings, Furcula present, Retinaculum present, Collophore present.

Answer 3

Collembola

Question 4

Silverfish, lack wings, no compound eyes, 3 POSTERIOR PROJECTIONS( all about equal length) ,Dorsoventrally flattened body. silver scales

Answer 4

Thysanura

Question 5

Jumping Bristletails, Lack wings. Compound eyes, 3 posterior projections(longer middle one) CYLINDRICAL body, scales

Answer 5

Microcoryphia

Question 6

Mayflies, Compound eyes, short setaceous antennae, large TRIANGULAR forwings, Small or absent hindwings, long multi segmented cerci,

Answer 6

Ephemeroptera

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

Plecoptera

Question 8

Dragonflies and Damselflies, large compound eyes, short antennae.

Answer 8

Odonata dragon flies- Anisoptera Damselflies- Zygoptera

Question 9

Walking sticks, leaf insects, resemble sticks, chewing mouthparts

Answer 9

Phasmetodea

Question 10

Mantids, leatherys forwings.

Answer 10

Mantodea

Question 11

Cockroaches, Dorsoventually flattened. head hiden by pronotum. long filiform antennae.

Answer 11

Blattodea

Question 12

rock/ice crawlers, wingless, mandibulate( lower jaw bigger than upper) mouthparts. 5 segmented tarsi. Long cerci.

Answer 12

Grylloblattodea

Question 13

gladiators, slender antennae, mandibulate mouth parts, cylindrical body, wingless only found in africa.

Answer 13

Mantophasmatodia

Question 14

Grasshoppers, crickets, katydids jumping hindlegs, two pairs of wings(front leathery)

Answer 14

Orthoptera

Question 15

Termites, reproductive ones winged, usually white and wingless,

Answer 15

isoptera

Question 16

9 segmented antennae, mandibulate mouth. resemble small termites.

Answer 16

Zoraptera

Question 17

Earwigs, incomplete metamorphis. FORCEPT like cerci.

Answer 17

Dermaptera

Question 18

webspinners, Enlarged basitiarsi forlegs

Answer 18

Embiidina

Question 19

book/bark lice, winged/wingless, rooflike over body membranous wings.

Answer 19

Psocoptera

Question 20

thrips, asymetrical peircing mouthparts,VERY NARROW WINGS WITH FRINGE HAIRS. need microscope.

Answer 20

Thysanoptera

Question 21

chewing lice, wingless. dorsoventurally flattened, grasping legs chewing mouthparts.

Answer 21

Pthiraptera - Mallophaga

Question 22

sucking lice, wingless grasping legs modified to host, sucking mouthparts

Answer 22

Pthiraptera Anoplura

Question 23

True bugs, piercing sucking mouthparts, some with hemelytra. triangle.

Answer 23

Hemiptera

Question 24

Beetles, Hardened Forewings.

Answer 24

Coleoptera

Question 25

twisted winged parasites, compound eye “raspberries”, often branched antennae

Answer 25

Strepsiptera

Question 26

lace wings, antlions, owlflies, two pairs of wings with many cross veins. Antennae-long

Answer 26

Neuroptera

Question 27

Ants, bees, wasps,sawflies, 2 pairs of wings. can have triangluar stigma in front wing.

Answer 27

Hymenoptera

Question 28

Elongated Head with chewing mouth parts,

Answer 28

Mecoptera

Question 29

Wings covered in hairs and held tentlike over body-

Answer 29

Tricoptera

Question 30

Butterflies and Moths

Answer 30

Lepidoptera

Question 31

fleas, latterally flattened

Answer 31

Siphonaptera

Question 32

Flies, one pair of wings. second pair are halteres.

Answer 32

Diptera