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Thysanura
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(order) (subclass Apterygota)
- Bristletails, silverfish, firebrats - elongate - protruding, chewing mouthparts - 10-11 segments - 2-3 tail-like appendages - often covered w/ scales - Ametabolous - Scavengers |
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Collembola
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(order) (subclass Apterygota)
- springtails - elongate or oval - <6mm - 6 segments on abdomen - Forcula- forked springing device on abdomen (seg. 4 or 6) - Collophore - tubelike structure on 1st abdominal segment, involved in water uptake - Ametabolous |
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Orthoptera
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(subclass Pterygota)
- Grasshoppers, katydids, crickets, mantids, walkingsticks, and cockroaches - hemimetabolous - chewing mouthparts - generally 2 pair wings - legs modified for jumping, grasping, digging |
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Dermaptera
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- earwigs
- hemimetabolous - elongate and flattened body - front wing: thick, leathery, short (elytra) - Large cerci, forceps-like - chewing mouthparts |
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Isoptera
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- termites
- social insects, live in colonies - soldiers, workers, reproductives - Hemimetabolous - Chewing mouthparts - Abdomen broadly joined to thorax |
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Phthiraptera
sub order Mallophaga |
- Chewing lice, bird lice
- <5mm, wingless - ectoparasites of birds and mammals - Hemimetabolous - chewing mouthparts - head as wide or wider than thorax** |
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Phthiraptera
sub order Anoplura |
- Sucking lice
- <4mm, wingless - Ectoparasites of mammals - Hemimetabolous - Sucking mouthparts - Head narrower than thorax** |
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Thysanoptera
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- Thrips
- Small (0.5-2mm) slender - Wings fringed with hairs (feather-like) - Sucking mouthparts - Sort of hemimetabolous |
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Hemiptera
sub order Heteroptera |
- True bugs (stink bugs, milkweed bugs, boxelder bugs, etc.)
- Hemelytra - Hemimetabolous - Sucking mouthparts - Some wingless |
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Homoptera
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- Cicadas, leafhoppers, treehopers, aphids, whiteflies, scale insects
- Most are hemimetabolous - sucking mouthparts - winged and wingless |
