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Things to know specifically for the exam Flashcards

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The largest phylum of the animal kingdom

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Arthropoda

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Name all 7 Kingdoms

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  1. Fungi
  2. Animalia
  3. Chromists
  4. Plants
  5. Eubacteria
  6. Archaea
  7. Protozoa
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What is the separation of the old cuticle from the epidermis

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Apolysis

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Finally the insect sheds its old cuticle, what is the old cuticle called?

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exuviae

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After it first escapes the old integument it is white or pale in color and soft - bodied; such insects are said to be

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Teneral

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Names for the two types of insect groups and each type of insect within them

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  1. Mandibulate
    - Chewing
  2. Haustellate
    - Piercing-sucking
    - Siphoning
    - Sponging
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Two names of insects and their lack of wings or presence of wings

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  1. Apterygota (without wings)
  2. Pterygota (with wings)
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What type of wings are these?

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Elytra: hard, sclerotized front wings that serve as protective covers for membranous hind wings (usually Coleoptera)

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What type of wings are these?

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Hemelytra: front wings that are leathery or parchment-like at the base and membranous near the tip (Hemiptera)

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What type of wings are these?

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Tegmina: front wings that are completely leathery or parchment-like in texture, hind wings are membranous

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What type of wings are these?

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Halteres: small, club-like hind wings that serve as gyroscopic stabilizers during flight (Diptera, flies)

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What kind of wings are these

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Fringed wings: slender front and hind wings with long fringes of hair (Thysanoptera)

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What kind of wings are these?

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Scaly wings: front and hind wings covered with flattened setae (scales)
Usually for Lepidoptera

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What kind of wings are these?

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Hamuli: tiny hooks on hind wing that hold front and hind wings together. (Hymenoptera, bees)

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At the tip of the abdomen of many primitive insects (Blattodea, Dermaptera, Orthoptera, etc.) a pair of many-segmented appendages called

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Cerci

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Two types of saliva?

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  1. A gel-like
  2. Watery
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Long, spaghetti-like structures extending throughout most of the abdominal cavity where they serve as excretory organs, removing nitrogenous wastes (principally ammonium cation NH4+) from the hemolymph.

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Malpighian tubules

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18
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3 Neuron types

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  1. Bipolar
  2. Unipolar
  3. Multipolar
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4 parts of the insect nervous system?

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  1. Brain
  2. Subesophageal ganglion
  3. Thoracic ganglia
  4. Abdominal ganglia
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3 parts of the insect brain

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  1. PROTOCEREBRUM
  2. DEUTOCEREBRUM
  3. TRITOCEREBRUM
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The female’s reproductive system contains a pair of ovaries.
Each ovary is subdivided into functional units called

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ovarioles

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During copulation, the male deposits spermatozoans in the…

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spermatheca

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Each testis is subdivided into functional units called

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Follicles

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The respiratory system is…

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separate from the circulatory system.

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Air enters the insect’s body through valve-like openings called
spiracles
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Insect blood is called?
haemolymph
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The endocrine system in insects is composed by...
1. neurosecretory cells 2. endocrine glands
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The subclass Pterygota is divided into two categories
1. Exopterygota 2. Endopterygota
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The apterygota have no metamorphosis. Except for the size, all larval stages closely resemble the adults (which are wingless), these insects are called...
ametabolous insects
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INCOMPLETE METAMORPHOSIS
Hemimetabolism
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COMPLETE METAMORPHOSIS
Holometabolism
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4 types of Semiochemicals
1. Pheromone 2. Allomone 3. Kairomone 4. Synomone
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interspecific that benefits both parties
Synomone
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interspecific that benefit the receiver but not the emitter
Kairomone
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interspecific that benefit the emitter but not the receiver
Allomone
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semiochemical exchanged between individuals of the same species.
Pheromone
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5 types of pheromones
1. Sex 2. Aggregation 3. Alarm 4. Trail 5. Spacing
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Blank are the most widely used substrate for transmitting vibrational signals.
Plants
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Lobesia Botrana, it caused direct damage to the vine
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Eupoecilia ambiguella. Direct damage to the vine
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Argyrotaenia ljungiana. Direct damage to the vine
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Antispila oinophylla. Tunneling looks like a blob rash
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Holocacista rivillei. Tunneling looks like a blob with a tail
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Phyllocnistis vitegenella. Tunneling looks like a winding river
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Popillia japonica (Coleoptera) Deals direct damage to the plant. Priority quarantine pest
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Drosophila suzuki (Diptera) Direct damage to the grapes
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Byctiscus betulae (vine leaf roller bug)
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Historically the Order Hemiptera was split into 2 suborders
1. Heteroptera (different wings) 2. Homoptera (uniform wings)
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Empoasca vitis Direct damage to vine (phloem sucker)
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Zygina rhamni, direct damage to vine (mesophyll sucker)
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Scaphoideus titanus. Indirect damage to vine (vector for flavescence dorée phytoplasma)
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Scaphoideus titanus nymph
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Hyalesthes obsoletus, indirect damage to grapevine its a vector for bois noir (stolbur) phytoplasma
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Xylella fastidiosa, a gram negative bacteria that in Northern America
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Philaenus spumarius main vector for Xylella fastidiosa
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eggs and nymphal stages of Philaenus spumarius
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Having many possible host plants
POLYPHAGOUS
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Planococcus ficus, direct damage to vine
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Heliococcus bohemicus
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Daktulosphaira vitifoliae (Grapevine phylloxera)
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gallicoles
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radicoles
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Halyomorpha halys, Direct damage to grapes
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Eggs of Haylyomorpha halys
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Thysanoptera (thrips) Direct damage to vines
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Drepanothrips reuteri, direct damage to vines
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Frankliniella occidentalis, direct damage to vine
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Fam. Eriophyidae
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spermatophores
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Nematodes
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gen. Xiphinema

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