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15 Cards in this Set
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Caelifera |
Grasshopers -Tagmina -Saltatorial legs -Tymponiums |
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Ensifera |
Crickets and Katydids -Fossorial legs -Strong jaws -Omnivores |
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Stenopelmatids |
Crickets -Distinguished by drumming patterns -Long ovipositers -Tympana -Phase polymorphism |
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Gryllidae |
Share features of crickets |
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Cricket Songs |
-calling songs -courtship -staying together -get off my territory |
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Anostostomatidae |
King Cricket -omnivores -only found in NZ -wingless |
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Gryllotalpidae |
Mole Crickets -Fossorial legs -short antennae -wings but not used -make tunnels to stridulate (amplify their sound) |
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Phasmotodia |
Walking Sticks and Leaf Insects |
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brachypterous |
-small-winged walking sticks -cant fly -parthenogenic -dimorphic (males smaller than females) -crypsis (hiding within the environment) -catelespy (playing dead) -glands in the thorax produce noxious fluid that can cause blindness |
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plecoptera |
stoneflies -univoltine (1 generation) -found in the water (gill on underside of thorax) |
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embioptera |
web spinners -females are wingless -males are winged |
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zoroptera |
angle insects -simple metamorphosis (4 instars) -once settled, they lose their wings |
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dermaptera |
earwigs -thigmotactic (enjoy high-pressure systems) |
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grylloblattodea |
ice crawlers -sometimes combined with mantophasmatodea-->order called notoptera -looks like a wingless cricket |
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mantophasmatodea |
heelwalkers -cursorial legs (running) - hemimetabolous -chewing mouthparts -NO OCELLI -nocturnal |
