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30 Cards in this Set
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Primitive insects |
Apterygota No wings |
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Class Entognatha |
retracted mouthparts 1 segmented tarsi wingless |
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Order Protura (Entognatha) |
"first tail" no antennae or eyes small, white, soft Anamorphosis - add segments when molting found in leaf litter/ decay |
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Oder Collembola (Entognatha) |
Spring tails globular or elongate furcula - spring mechanism collophore - water balance found in leaf litter |
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Order Diplura |
two tail elongate and slender long antennae and cerci chewing mouthparts found in moist soil detritivorous and carnivorous |
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Class Insecta |
Outside mouthparts |
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Order Microcoryphia (Insecta) |
jumping bristletails humpbacked and rounded scales long cerci 3 segmented tarsi found in forests and ground litter detritivorous |
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Order Tysanura (Insecta) |
silver fish flattened long cerci found in cool moist habitats |
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Subclass Pterogota |
cant fold wings back pivet wings Paleoptera and Neoptera |
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Order Ephemeroptera (Pterogota - Paleoptera) |
mayflies slender and elongate triangular forewing abdominal gills subimago - adult form indicator taxa |
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Order Odonata (Pterogota - Paleoptera) |
Dragonflies and damselflies Large membranous heads large compound eyes unsegmented cerci Suborders Anisoptera and Zygoptera |
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Order Plecoptera (Pretogota - Neoptera) |
stone flies flattened and elongate 2 cerci wings held flat squared head detritivorous and predaceous |
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Order Embiidina (Pterogota - Neoptera) |
webspinners spin silk from front tarsi wingless females detritivorous |
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Order Zoraptera (Pterogota - Neoptera) |
monofiliform antennae found in wood or saw dust some have wings, eyes, and ocelli |
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Order Orthoptera (Pterogota - Neoptera) |
grasshoppers and crickets leathery forewing tympanum - sound producing herbivorous and predaceous Suborder Caelifera (shorthorn) and Ensifera (longhorn) |
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Order Phasmida (Pterogota - Neoptera) |
Walking sticks thin, elongate, and leaf/sticklike short prothorax wingless (usually) |
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Order Dermaptera (Pterogota - Neoptera) |
earwigs flattened forcep-like cerci nocturnal found in moist areas |
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Order Notoptera |
rock crawlers slender antennae 8 segmented cerci small or absent eyes Mantophasmids - heelwalkers, only found in Africa |
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Order Blattodea (Dictyoptera) |
cockroaches, termites oval, flattened, running legs do not vector disease |
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Order Mantodea (Dictyoptera) |
elongate prothorax spines on forelegs triangular head carnvivorous foamy ootheca (eggsack) practice crypsis - camoflague |
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Order Pscodea (Paraneoptera) |
lice booklice - rooflike wings, phoretic - ride on other organisms parasitic - wingless, host specific, chewing or sucking mouthparts can vector disease (typhus, trench fever) |
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Order Thysanoptera (Paraneoptera) |
thrips predaceous on plants transmit disease to plants |
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Order Hemiptera (Paraneoptera) |
"half wing" flat or rooflike wings feed on plants or insects triangular scutellum Suborder Sternorrhyncha (aphids), Auchenorrhyncha (cicadas/hoppers), Heteroptera (true bugs) |
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Order Megaloptera (Endopterygota) |
broad hindwing aquatic larvae |
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Order Neuoptera (endopterygota) |
lace wings wings are the same size and shape sickle shape mandibles |
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Order Raphidioptera (endopterygota) |
snake flies only found out west |
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Order Coleoptera (endopterygota) |
beetles 1 in 4 animals is a beetle over 300,000 sp., 30,000 in US leathery wings or schleratized (elytra) |
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Order Diptera (endopterygota) |
two wings flies wings are reduced to knobs for balance - halteres some have sponging mouthparts - rostrum spread disease Suborder Nematocera (longhorn), Brachycera (house flies/ fruit flies) |
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Order Trichoptera (Endoptyergota) |
caddis flies moth like rooflike wings indicator taxa |
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Order Lepidoptera (endopterygota) |
butterflies, moths, skippers 2nd largest insect group wings covered in scales plant feeding larvae butterflies - clubbed antennae, thin body, chrysalis moths - flat/folded wings, stout body skippers - curved clubbed antennae, poor fliers |
