Quiz #2 (thru Neuroptera)

Question 1

Orthoptera superorder

Answer 1

grasshoppers and crickets

Question 2

Acridadae

Answer 2

cn: Short-horned grasshoppers
Laterally compressed, antennae shorter than body

Question 3

Acridadae tympanum location and tarsal arrangement

Answer 3

abdomen – 3-3-3

Question 4

Gryllidae

Answer 4

cn: ground, field, and tree crickets
dorsoventrally flattened, antennae long or longer than body

Question 5

Gryllidae tarsal arrangement

Answer 5

3-3-3

Question 6

Tettidoniidae

Answer 6

cn: longhorn grasshoppers
laterally compressed

Question 7

Tettidoniidae tarsal arrangement and tympanum location

Answer 7

4-4-4- – protibia

Question 8

Rhaphidophoridae

Answer 8

cn: camel crickets
laterally compressed

Question 9

Rhaphidophoridae traits

Answer 9

very long antennae, humpback, large metathoracic legs

Question 10

Gryllotalpidae

Answer 10

cn: mole crickets [LIKELY ON QUIZ]
fossorial prothoracic legs, small eyes, heavily sclerotized pronotum, cylindrical body

Question 11

order Phasmatodia

Answer 11

Order for Walkingsticks
cryptic coloration and mimesis

Question 12

order Mantodea

Answer 12

order for family: Mantidea [likely on quiz]
raptorial prothoracic legs

Question 13

order Blattodea

Answer 13

cn: termites, cockroaches (epifamilies)

Question 14

Ectobiidae

Answer 14

cn: german cockroach, brown banded cockroach
ectobiid cockroaches
heavy spines on profemur that shrink distally. smal

Question 15

epifamily Blattoidea

Answer 15

cn: american, smokey brown, oriental cockroaches
big. gradually decreasing heavy spines, on ventroposterior region

Question 16

blattoidea cockroaches are a

Answer 16

epifamily

Question 17

epifamily Termitoidea

Answer 17

epifamily, broadly attached segments, monofiliform antennae

Question 18

order Psosodea

Answer 18

cn: booklice and parasitic lice
broadly attached at thorax and abdomen

Question 19

Liposcelididae

Answer 19

cn: booklice
long filiform antennae, contrictions b/w head-prothorax, and mesothorax-abdomen

Question 20

Pthiraptera

Answer 20

cn: chewing lice and Ishnoceran chewing lice
head wider than pronotum, antennae tucked into ventral grooves
superfamily Ishnocera and amblycera

Question 21

Superfamily Anoplecara

Answer 21

cn: sucking lice
vectors of nasty yo (trench fever +typhus)

Question 22

Suborder Psocidae

Answer 22

cn: barklice!

Question 23

Order Thysanoptera

Answer 23

cn: thrips (singular)
fringed wings, punch n’ suck feeding

Question 24

CLASS Holometabulous
(after Thysanoptera)

Answer 24

drastic change from infant to adult
(pupal stage too)

Question 25

Order Megaloptera

Answer 25

alderflies, dobsonflies

Question 26

subfamily Corydalidae

Answer 26

Cn: dobsonflies
larvae are called hellgrammites

Question 27

subfamily Chalodinae

Answer 27

cn: fishflies
special trait: they’re not dobsonflies i guess

Question 28

Order Neuroptera

Answer 28

lacewings of all sorts
long filiform antennae and predacious larvae

Question 29

Chrysopidae

Answer 29

cn: common lacewings
green wing veins

Question 30

Hemerobiidae

Answer 30

cn: brown lacewings
brown wing veins

Question 31

Myrmeliontidae

Answer 31

cn: antlions
myrmix myrmix what a treat, get your substrate fix this week.