quiz #7; through Siphonaptera Flashcards
suborder Adephaga
troconter out
suborder Polyphaga
troconter tucked
% Carabidae
ground and tiger beetles
prognathous, fast, subapical spur
subfamily Cicindellinae
tiger beetles
% Dytiscidae
water beetle
troconter out, no ventral spine, some with swollen prothoracic legs
% Gryinidae
whirligig beetles
split compound eyes
% Cantharidae
soldier beetles
pronotal shield, soft elytra, head not covered
% Staphilinidae
rove beetles
truncated wings
%Lampyridae
fireflies
% Hydrophilidae
Water scavenging beetles
%Meloidae
blister beetles
abdomen sticks out
% Scarabaeidae
scarab
% Coccinellidae
ladybugs
/ladybird beetles
%Carambycidae
long-horned beetles
notched eyes
4-4-4
%Buprestidae
metallic woodboring beetles
% Lucanidae
stag beetles
big mandibles
lamellate antennae
% Elateridae
click beetles
pronotal corners
% curculionidae
weevils
% Reduviidae
cn: assassin bugs, ambush bugs
beak with groove, neck
% Lygaeidae
cn: Seed bugs
head wide as pronotum, colorful, 4-5 longitudinal veins in hemelytra membr.
% Coreidae
cn: Leaf-footed bugs. squash bugs
head narrower than pronotum, metathoracic tibia enlarged
% Nepidae
cn: Waterscorpion
ME WHEN I GET YOU legs (raptorial)
elongated breathing siphon
% Scutelleridae
cn: Shield-back beetles
round ovoid, scutellum COVERS abdomen, covering most of wings, 4 segmented antennae
Suborder Nematocera
cn: long-horned flies
filiform antennae and usually thin bodied
% Tipulidae
cn: craneflies or snowflies
large, lack occeli, large haltorial wings (2 anal veins)
% Ptychopteridae
cn: phantom crane flies
1 anal vein, radial vein 5 branched
% Psychodidae
cn: mothflies, drainflies, sandflies
% Culicidae
cn: mosquitoes
scaly membranous wings
proboscis, plusome antennae
% Chironomidae
cn: midges
NO PROBOSCOUS
no scales on wings too!
very plumose antennae
suborder Brachycera
cn: shorthorned flies
scoop-like mouths
reduced antennae
% Tabanidae
cn: deer, horse flies
stylate antennae
R4 and R5 separate and encompass tip
% Asilidae
cn: Robber Flies
Concave stoopid head
piercing mouthparts
% Syrphidae
cn: Flower flies, hover flies
r-m cross-vein (doesn’t make it to edge of wing)
aristate antennae
Superfamily Muscoidea
the boring flies
% Calliphoridae
cn: blow flies
bright metallic colors
artista generally plumose at tip
HYPOPLEURON W BRISTLES
% Sarcophagidae
cn: flesh flies
tip of arista bare, base plumose
Hypopleuron w 4 distinct bristles
dull color, evil eyes
%Muscidae
cn: house/face flies
dull body, aristate plumose
Hypopleuron w/out bristles
% Tachnidae
cn: Tachnid flies
dull body, bare arista
ENLARGED post-scutellum (main trait)
they got brsitles on that Hypopleuron
Order Mecoptera
cn: hangingflies, scorpionflies
2 pairs of long membranous wings
long snout, large conspicuous eyes
very romantic
% Bittacidae
cn: hanging flies
tarsi w 1 claw, raptorial 5th segment
abdomen recurved, 2 PAIRS of wings (unlike crane fly)
% Panorpidae
cn: scorpion flies
tarsi w 2 claws, wings patterned normally
male abdomen normally w scorpion tail
Order Siphonaptera
FLEAS
laterally compressed, secondarily apterous
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