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quiz #7; through Siphonaptera Flashcards

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suborder Adephaga

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troconter out

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suborder Polyphaga

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troconter tucked

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% Carabidae

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ground and tiger beetles
prognathous, fast, subapical spur

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subfamily Cicindellinae

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tiger beetles

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% Dytiscidae

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water beetle
troconter out, no ventral spine, some with swollen prothoracic legs

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% Gryinidae

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whirligig beetles
split compound eyes

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% Cantharidae

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soldier beetles
pronotal shield, soft elytra, head not covered

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% Staphilinidae

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rove beetles
truncated wings

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%Lampyridae

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fireflies

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% Hydrophilidae

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Water scavenging beetles

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%Meloidae

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blister beetles
abdomen sticks out

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% Scarabaeidae

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scarab

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% Coccinellidae

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ladybugs
/ladybird beetles

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%Carambycidae

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long-horned beetles
notched eyes
4-4-4

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%Buprestidae

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metallic woodboring beetles

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% Lucanidae

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stag beetles
big mandibles
lamellate antennae

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% Elateridae

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click beetles
pronotal corners

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% curculionidae

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weevils

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% Reduviidae

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cn: assassin bugs, ambush bugs
beak with groove, neck

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% Lygaeidae

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cn: Seed bugs
head wide as pronotum, colorful, 4-5 longitudinal veins in hemelytra membr.

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% Coreidae

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cn: Leaf-footed bugs. squash bugs
head narrower than pronotum, metathoracic tibia enlarged

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% Nepidae

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cn: Waterscorpion
ME WHEN I GET YOU legs (raptorial)
elongated breathing siphon

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% Scutelleridae

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cn: Shield-back beetles
round ovoid, scutellum COVERS abdomen, covering most of wings, 4 segmented antennae

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Suborder Nematocera

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cn: long-horned flies
filiform antennae and usually thin bodied

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% Tipulidae

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cn: craneflies or snowflies
large, lack occeli, large haltorial wings (2 anal veins)

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% Ptychopteridae

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cn: phantom crane flies
1 anal vein, radial vein 5 branched

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% Psychodidae

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cn: mothflies, drainflies, sandflies

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% Culicidae

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cn: mosquitoes
scaly membranous wings
proboscis, plusome antennae

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% Chironomidae

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cn: midges
NO PROBOSCOUS
no scales on wings too!
very plumose antennae

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suborder Brachycera

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cn: shorthorned flies
scoop-like mouths
reduced antennae

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% Tabanidae

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cn: deer, horse flies
stylate antennae
R4 and R5 separate and encompass tip

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% Asilidae

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cn: Robber Flies
Concave stoopid head
piercing mouthparts

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% Syrphidae

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cn: Flower flies, hover flies
r-m cross-vein (doesn’t make it to edge of wing)
aristate antennae

34
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Superfamily Muscoidea

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the boring flies

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% Calliphoridae

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cn: blow flies
bright metallic colors
artista generally plumose at tip
HYPOPLEURON W BRISTLES

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% Sarcophagidae

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cn: flesh flies
tip of arista bare, base plumose
Hypopleuron w 4 distinct bristles
dull color, evil eyes

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%Muscidae

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cn: house/face flies
dull body, aristate plumose
Hypopleuron w/out bristles

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% Tachnidae

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cn: Tachnid flies
dull body, bare arista
ENLARGED post-scutellum (main trait)
they got brsitles on that Hypopleuron

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Order Mecoptera

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cn: hangingflies, scorpionflies
2 pairs of long membranous wings
long snout, large conspicuous eyes
very romantic

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% Bittacidae

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cn: hanging flies
tarsi w 1 claw, raptorial 5th segment
abdomen recurved, 2 PAIRS of wings (unlike crane fly)

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% Panorpidae

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cn: scorpion flies
tarsi w 2 claws, wings patterned normally
male abdomen normally w scorpion tail

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Order Siphonaptera

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FLEAS
laterally compressed, secondarily apterous
yummy

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