Entomology Cal Poly Dr. Costello Ppsc 311

Front 1

What are the four measures of success for insects?

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1) Species Diversity
2) High Numbers of Individuals
3) Evolutionary Longevity
4) Ecological diversity

Front 2

Where can Insects be found?

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1) High altitude/Latitude
2) Subterranean
3) Desert
4) Aquatic
5) Terrestrial

Front 3

What is the only habitat that insects haven't colonized yet?

Back 3

the ocean

Front 4

What reasons have lead to insect success?

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1) Small size
2) Presence of an exoskeleton and cuticle to colonize dry environments
3) They colonized land before the chordates
4) The higher orders undergo complete metamorphosis
5) Flight
6) High reproductive rate

Front 5

What are the feeding habits of insects?

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1) Decomposers/detritivores
2) Herbivores/phytophages
3) Carnivores/entomophages
4) Omnivores

Front 6

What are some of insects negative roles in human society?

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1) Damage to economic crops
2) Damage to stored food products
3) Damage structures and household goods
4) Annoy, parasitize and transmit disease to domestic animals
5) Annoy, parasitize and transmit desease to humans

Front 7

what are some positive roles insects play in human society?

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1) Insects can be a beautiful part of our natural environment
2) Pollination
3) Insects produce products humans can use (honey, silk)
4) medicinal use
5) human food
6) decomposition
7) Entomophagous insects are an important part of the biological control of insects
8) Insects are an important part of the food web

Front 8

what order are springtails in?

Back 8

Order Collembola

Front 9

what order are Silverfish and Firebrats in?

Back 9

Order Thysanura

Front 10

What order are Mayflies in?

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Order Ephemeroptera

Front 11

What order are dragonflies and damselflies in?

Back 11

Order Odonata

Front 12

What order are Cockroaches in?

Back 12

Order Blattodea

Front 13

What order are praying Mantids in?

Back 13

Order Mantodea

Front 14

What order are Termites in?

Back 14

Order Isoptera

Front 15

What order are Earwigs in?

Back 15

Order Dermaptera

Front 16

What order are Bark lice and Book lice in?

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Order Psocoptera

Front 17

What order are Sucking lice and chewing lice in?

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Phthiraptera

Front 18

What order are Grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids in?

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Orthoptera

Front 19

What order and suborder are true bugs in?

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Hemiptera, Heteroptera

Front 20

What order and suborder are Aphids, leafhoppers, psyllids, whiteflies, scales and more?

Back 20

Hemiptera, Homoptera

Front 21

What order are Thrips in?

Back 21

Thysanoptera

Front 22

What order are Lacewings, antlions, snakeflies in?

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Neuroptera

Front 23

What order are beetles in?

Back 23

Coleoptera

Front 24

What order are flies in?

Back 24

Diptera

Front 25

What order are fleas in?

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Siphonaptera

Front 26

What order are butterflies and moths in?

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Lepidoptera

Front 27

What order are bees, wasps, and ants

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Hymenoptera

Front 28

What family has the Ground Beetles?
-Pronotum with notopleural structures
-metacoxae dividing first visible abdomin
-tarsal formula 5-5-5

Back 28

family Carabidae

Front 29

What family are scarabs in?
-Antenae with terminal 3-7 segments enlarged and flattened, like a layered club.

Back 29

family Scarabaeidae

Front 30

What family are lady beetles in?
-Pronotum ovoid, hooked like covering most of head
-body shape round/oval
-tarsal formula 3-3-3

Back 30

family coccinellidae

Front 31

What family are leaf beetles in?
-pronotum ovoid, hood-like, covering most of head
-body shape elongate oval
-tarsal formula 4-4-4

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family chrysomelidae

Front 32

What is the family of weevils?
-antennae elbowed
-head elongated into a snout

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family curculionidae

Front 33

What is the family of the darkling beetles?
-sclarite "notched" into compound eye
-tarsal segments 5-5-4

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family Tenebrionidae

Front 34

What is the family of hover flies?
-mimics hymenopteran shape and pattern
-"Spurious" vein between M1 + M2 and R4 + R5

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family Syrphidae

Front 35

What is the family of leaf miner flies?
-one with stout bristles in front of mouth
-wings Costa (C) broken near end of R1

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Family Agromyzidae

Front 36

What is the family of fruit flies?
-Subcosta (Sc) bent apically toward costa at nearly a right angle, but not reaching costa

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Family Tephritidae

Front 37

What is the family of tachinids?
-Thorax with large, convex, transverse postscutellum
-Abominal tergites very bristly
-Antennae - naked arista

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Family Tachinidae

Front 38

This family of flies has a vein 2A reaching lower wing margin, lower calypter equal to or smaller than upper

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Family Muscidae

Front 39

This family of flies has Vein 2A not reaching lower wing margin, lower calypter longer than upper

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Family Anthomyiidae

Front 40

This is the family of mosquitoes

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Family Culicidae

Front 41

What is the family of inchworms?
-wavy line pattern across wings
-forewing tipped

Back 41

Geometridae

Front 42

What is the family of cutworms?
-Stout thorax

Back 42

Noctuidae

Front 43

What is the family of snoutnosed moths?

Back 43

Pyralidae

Front 44

What is the family of leafrollers?
bell shaped wings

Back 44

Tortricidae

Front 45

What is the family of whites, sulfers?

Back 45

Pieridae

Front 46

What is the family of ants?

Back 46

Formicidae

Front 47

What is the family of wasps with the horse head on the wing venation?

Back 47

Ichneumonidae

Front 48

What is the family of wasps that has a bridle on the horse head?

Back 48

Braconidae

Front 49

What is the family of honeybees and bumblebees?

Back 49

Apidae

Front 50

What is the family of yellow jackets, paper wasps, and hornets?

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Vespidae