Midterm 2

Question 1

Apteragota

Answer 1

Protura- first tail, come heads
Use first legs like antennae
Collembola - Spring tails
Love gardens
Thysanura - bristle tails
3rd tail like appendage

Question 2

Pterygota

Ephemeroptera

Answer 2

May flies
Mass emergence
Subimago- moly after wings

Question 3

Odonata

Answer 3

Dragonflies/ damsel flies
Can’t fold wings
Male take sorry out of female

Question 4

Phasmida

Answer 4

Walking sticks and leaf bugs

Use mimicry can regrow limbs

Question 5

Orthoptera

Answer 5

Straight wing
Grass hoppers and crickets
Rub wings to make noise
Saltorial back legs

Question 6

Mantodea

Answer 6

Preying mantids
Raptorial front legs
Female decapitates male

Question 7

Blattaria

Answer 7

Cockroaches
Pronotal shield
Termites maybe evolved from them

Question 8

Isoptera

Answer 8

Termites
Social insects
Broad connection head to thorax

Question 9

Dermaptera

Answer 9

Skin wing, earwig
Mom lays eggs and takes care of them
Clipper cerci

Question 10

Embioptera

Answer 10

Web spinners
Live in neighbourhood
Enlarged tarsi make silk

Question 11

Plecoptera

Answer 11

Folded wings, stone flies
Use abdomen to bang on ground, plec sound
Lag eggs in goo in water

Question 12

Phthiraptera

Ishnocera

Answer 12

Sucking lice

Epidemic typhus, trench fever, epidemic relapsing fever

Question 13

Phthiraptera

Mallophaga

Answer 13

Chewing lice

Question 14

Hemiptera

Heteroptera

Answer 14

True bugs

Hemelytra and piercing sucking

Question 15

Corixidae

Answer 15

Water boatmen
No wings
Air bubbles to breathe

Question 16

Belostomatidae

Answer 16

Toe biters
Sit and wait predators
Males carry eggs
Breathe through spiracles

Question 17

Miradae

Answer 17

Plant bugs, leaf bugs

Lacerate and flush eating

Question 18

Reduviidae

Answer 18

Assassin bugs
Predators
Saliva toxins

Kissing bugs
Eat blood
Chagas disease

Question 19

Cimicidae

Answer 19

Bed bugs
No wings, lost them
Traumatic insemination

Question 20

Pentatomidae

Answer 20

Stink bugs

Body shaped like pentagon 5

Question 21

Lygaeidae

Answer 21

Seed bugs

Inject saliva to kill fruit to get seeds

Question 22

Gerridae

Answer 22

Waterstriders
Long tarsi to walk on water
Raptorial front legs
Use vibrations to sense prey on water

Question 23

Homoptera

Auchenorhyncha

Answer 23

Mouthparts back of head

Question 24

Cicadidae

Answer 24

Cicadas
Females saw into tree to lay eggs
Sound like ballon loosing air

Question 25

Membracidae

Answer 25

Treehoppers
Host plant specific
Look like thorns

Question 26

Cercopidae

Answer 26

Spittle bugs

Nymph produces foam

Question 27

Cicadellidae

Answer 27

Leaf hoppers
Can transmit plant disease
Use sound to communicate

Question 28

Homoptera

Stenorhyncha

Answer 28

Honeydew

Question 29

Aleyrididae

Answer 29

White flies
Wings have waxy powder
3rd nymph doesn’t eat

Question 30

Aphididae

Answer 30

Aphids
No wings
Viviparous
Alarm pheromones

Question 31

Coccoidea

Answer 31

Mealy bugs, soft scales

Females don’t move (like web spinners)

Question 32

Thysanoptera

Answer 32

Thrips
Fringe wings
Unique metamorphosis and mouthparts

Question 33

Order Neuroptera

Answer 33

Nerve wings

Holometab

Question 34

Neuroptera

Corydallidae

Answer 34

Dobson flies
Hellgrammites - live in water
Huge mandibles
Predators

Question 35

Neuroptera

Raphidiidae

Answer 35

Snake flies
Super long prothorax
Looks like snake
Predators

Question 36

Neuroptera

Chrysopidae

Answer 36

Green lacewings
Green with gold eyes
Silk stalks for eggs
Eat tons of aphids

Question 37

Neuroptera

Myrmelionidae

Answer 37

Ant lions
Clubbed antennae
Large wings
Live in canal pits

Question 38

Neuroptera

Mantispidae

Answer 38

Mantid flies 
Raptorial
Hyper metamorphasis 
Eggs of stalks
2nd larvae looses legs

Question 39

Aposematism

Answer 39

Colouring that warns away predators