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Lab practical #1 - Hemiptera (Heteroptera) Flashcards

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Reduviidae - “Assassin Bug”

  1. Head conical, narrowed behind eyes
  2. Beak short (3 - segments) and fitting into a groove of prosternum
  3. Triatoma
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Psocodea

Anoplura (Suborder) “Sucking Lice”

  1. Feed on blood of their host
  2. Tarsi modified for grasping hairs of host
  3. Head narrower than, prothorax
  4. Sucking mouthparts
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Thysanoptera - “Thrips”

  1. Sucking type mouthparts with proboscis directed posteriorly
  2. Very Small
  3. Wings present with long fringe hairs or wings absent
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Hemiptera Order (Heteroptera)

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  1. Mouthparts forming beak arising from front of head
  2. Wings with apical portion membranous and overlapping each other, forming triangular area at base
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Psocodea = Phthiraptera (Anoplura & Mallophaga) and Psocoptera

“Chewing Lice”

  1. Tarsi modified for grasping hairs and feathers of host
  2. Head wider than prothorax
  3. Chewing mouthparts for feeding on sking, hair, and feathers of host
  4. Chewing lice with bird hosts have 2-tarsal claws
  5. Chewing lice with mammal hosts have 1-tarsal claw
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Gelastocoridae - “Toad Bugs”

  1. Resemble small toads
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Cimicidae - “Bed Bugs”

  1. Oval Shaped
  2. Wingless
  3. Cimex lectularius - is less common now than 50 years ago
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Gerridae - “Water Striders”

  1. Forelegs with anteapical claws
  2. Middle legs arising closer to hind legs than front legs
  3. Femur of hind leg extend beyond end of abdomen
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Corixidae - “Water Boatmen”

  1. Elongate
  2. Flattened
  3. Small
  4. Dorsal surface of body crossed by lines
  5. Legs used for swimming, clinging to veg, and straining food from water
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Coreidae - “Leaf-footed bugs”

  1. Hemelytra with many veins,
  2. Scent glands present on thorax between middle and hind coxae
  3. Head narrower and shorter than pronotum
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Psocodea - Psocidae

“Bark Lice”

  1. Clypeus well developed and protruding
  2. Usually with wings
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Veliidae - “Broad Shouldered Water Striders”

  1. Forelegs with anteapical claws
  2. Middle legs arising about midway between front and hindlegs
  3. Femur of hind leg not extending beyond end of abdomen
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Psocodea

“Book Lice”

  1. Clypeus well developed and protruding
  2. Usually wingless
  3. Smaller than Psocoidae
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Thyreocoridae - “Black Bugs”

  1. Antenna (5 -segmented)
  2. Black
  3. Scutellum covering most of the abdomen
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Blissidae - “Chinch Bug”

  1. Similar to Lygaeidae, but smaller
  2. Black and White
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Nepidae - “Water Scorpions”

  1. Long caudal breathing tube
  2. Raptorial front legs
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Pscodea = Phthiraptera (Anoplura & Mallophaga) and Psocoptera - Pediculus

(Head and Body Lice) - “Sucking Lice”

  1. Feed on blood of their host
  2. Tarsi modified for grasping hairs of host
  3. Head narrower than, prothorax
  4. Sucking mouthparts
  5. Subspecies of the same species Pediculus humanis (body louse)
    1. Vector of the pathogen causing epidmeic typhus
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Nabidae - “Damsel Bug”

  1. Small
  2. Slender
  3. Enlarged front femora
  4. Hemelytra membrane with many small cells around margin
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Belostomatidae - “Giant Water Bugs”

  1. Elongate
  2. Flattened
  3. Large
  4. Raptorial front legs
  5. Females of some belostomatidae ovipost their eggs on the hemelytra of a male
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Notonectidae - “Backswimmers”

  1. Similar to corixids, but dorsal surface convex or keeled
  2. Hind tarsi without claws
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Miridae - “Plant Bug”

  1. Hemelytra with cuneus
  2. Lygus “Tarnished Plant Bug”
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Psocodea = Phthiraptera (Anoplura & Mallophaga) and Psocoptera - Phthirus

(Crab Lice) - “Sucking Lice”

  1. Feed on blood of their host
  2. Tarsi modified for grasping hairs of host
  3. Head narrower than, prothorax
  4. Sucking mouthparts
  5. Subspecies of the same species Phthirus pubis (crab louse)
    1. Not known to carry disease pathogens
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Cydnidae - “Burrow bugs”

  1. Similar to pentatomids, but tibiae spiny
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Geocoridae - “Big Eyed Bug”

  1. Similar to Lygaridae, but eyes are large
  2. Head as wide as pronotum
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Aradidae - “Flat Bark Bugs”

  1. Brown
  2. Small
  3. Very Flat
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Berytidae - “Stilt Bug”

  1. Clubbed antennae
  2. Long
  3. Slender Body and Appendages
  4. Front legs not raptorial
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Pentatomidae - “Stink bug”

  1. Atenna (5-segmented)
  2. large, triangular scutellum
  3. Nymphs (as shown in picture), have wing buds during 3 to 4 instar
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Pentatmidae - “Stink Bug”

  1. Antenna (5-segmented)
  2. Large
  3. Triangular scutellum
  4. Nymphs have wing buds during 3 to 4 instar
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Tingidae - “Lace Bug”

  1. Dorsal surface of body sculptured
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Lygaeidae - “Seed Bug”

  1. Hemelytra membrane with 4 to 5 simple veins

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