Midterm 2 Flashcards
Apteragota
Protura- first tail, come heads Use first legs like antennae Collembola - Spring tails Love gardens Thysanura - bristle tails 3rd tail like appendage
Pterygota
Ephemeroptera
May flies
Mass emergence
Subimago- moly after wings
Odonata
Dragonflies/ damsel flies
Can’t fold wings
Male take sorry out of female
Phasmida
Walking sticks and leaf bugs
Use mimicry can regrow limbs
Orthoptera
Straight wing
Grass hoppers and crickets
Rub wings to make noise
Saltorial back legs
Mantodea
Preying mantids
Raptorial front legs
Female decapitates male
Blattaria
Cockroaches
Pronotal shield
Termites maybe evolved from them
Isoptera
Termites
Social insects
Broad connection head to thorax
Dermaptera
Skin wing, earwig
Mom lays eggs and takes care of them
Clipper cerci
Embioptera
Web spinners
Live in neighbourhood
Enlarged tarsi make silk
Plecoptera
Folded wings, stone flies
Use abdomen to bang on ground, plec sound
Lag eggs in goo in water
Phthiraptera
Ishnocera
Sucking lice
Epidemic typhus, trench fever, epidemic relapsing fever
Phthiraptera
Mallophaga
Chewing lice
Hemiptera
Heteroptera
True bugs
Hemelytra and piercing sucking
Corixidae
Water boatmen
No wings
Air bubbles to breathe
Belostomatidae
Toe biters
Sit and wait predators
Males carry eggs
Breathe through spiracles
Miradae
Plant bugs, leaf bugs
Lacerate and flush eating
Reduviidae
Assassin bugs
Predators
Saliva toxins
Kissing bugs
Eat blood
Chagas disease
Cimicidae
Bed bugs
No wings, lost them
Traumatic insemination
Pentatomidae
Stink bugs
Body shaped like pentagon 5
Lygaeidae
Seed bugs
Inject saliva to kill fruit to get seeds
Gerridae
Waterstriders
Long tarsi to walk on water
Raptorial front legs
Use vibrations to sense prey on water
Homoptera
Auchenorhyncha
Mouthparts back of head
Cicadidae
Cicadas
Females saw into tree to lay eggs
Sound like ballon loosing air
Membracidae
Treehoppers
Host plant specific
Look like thorns
Cercopidae
Spittle bugs
Nymph produces foam
Cicadellidae
Leaf hoppers
Can transmit plant disease
Use sound to communicate
Homoptera
Stenorhyncha
Honeydew
Aleyrididae
White flies
Wings have waxy powder
3rd nymph doesn’t eat
Aphididae
Aphids
No wings
Viviparous
Alarm pheromones
Coccoidea
Mealy bugs, soft scales
Females don’t move (like web spinners)
Thysanoptera
Thrips
Fringe wings
Unique metamorphosis and mouthparts
Order Neuroptera
Nerve wings
Holometab
Neuroptera
Corydallidae
Dobson flies
Hellgrammites - live in water
Huge mandibles
Predators
Neuroptera
Raphidiidae
Snake flies
Super long prothorax
Looks like snake
Predators
Neuroptera
Chrysopidae
Green lacewings
Green with gold eyes
Silk stalks for eggs
Eat tons of aphids
Neuroptera
Myrmelionidae
Ant lions
Clubbed antennae
Large wings
Live in canal pits
Neuroptera
Mantispidae
Mantid flies Raptorial Hyper metamorphasis Eggs of stalks 2nd larvae looses legs
Aposematism
Colouring that warns away predators
