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Order: Anoplura Common name: Sucking lice
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This insect is commonly found in hair and literally sucks |
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Order: Blattodae Common name: Cockroach 1 = elongate oval 2 = transverse oval |
This is a common household pest |
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Order: Coleoptera Family: Buprestidae Common name: Metallic-boring beetle
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Order Coleoptera |
Common name: Beetles
Key traits: hardened front wings (elytra) meet in a straight line down the center of the back |
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Order: Coleoptera Family: Cantharidae Common name: Soldier beetle
Key traits: slender antennae, yellow elytra with black spots |
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Order: Coleoptera Family: Carabidae Common name: Ground beetle
Key traits: Hind trochanters large and offset, filiform antennae, elytra has longitudinal rows of grooves |
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Filiform antennae |
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Trochanters - the second segment of the leg between the coxa and the femur |
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Order: Coleoptera Family: Cerambicidae Common name: long-horned beetle
Key traits: very long antennae, compound eyes wrap around base of antennae |
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Order Coleoptera Family Chrysomelidae Common name: leaf beetle
Key traits: body oval, colors vary, 4-segmented tarsi, 3rd tarsal segment bifid and notched for the terminal segment
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Long-horned beetle larvae |
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Order Coleoptera Family Cicindelidae Common name: tiger beetle
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Order Coleoptera Family Cleridae Common name: checkered beetle |
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Order Coleoptera Family Coccinelidae Common name: lady-bird beetles, ladybugs
Key traits: body oval and convex, black with red spots or red/orange with black spots, tarsi looks 3-segmented, but is actually 4-segmented
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Order Coleoptera Family Curculionidae Common name: weevil
Key traits: Proboscis (short and broad or long and slender) has chewing mouth parts at the tip), antennae elbowed and arising near the middle of the proboscis
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Proboscis |
An elongated sucking mouthpart that is typically tubular and flexible |
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Order Coleoptera Family Dytiscidae Common name: predaceous diving beetle
Key traits: filiform antennae, middle legs arise much closer to the front legs than the hind legs, mesosternum broad and flat, hind tarsi bears an single straight claw |
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Order Coleoptera Family Elateridae Common name: click beetle
Key traits: lateral margins of prothorax point backward, prosternal spine works as "click" mechanism |
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Order Coleoptera Family Gyrinidae Common name: whirlgig beetle
Key traits: body smooth, black, and oval; compound eye divided (upper half looks up and lower half looks down) |
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Order Coleoptera Family Histeridae Common name: hister beetle |
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Order Coleoptera Family Hydrophilidae Common name: water scavenger beetle
Key traits: terminal segments of antennae moderately clubbed, maxillary palps longer than antennae, mid-ventral spine form a "keel" along the underside of the thorax |
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Order Coleoptera Family Lampyridae Common name: fireflies
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Order Coleoptera Family Lucanidae Common name: stag beetle |
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Order Coleoptera Family Lycidae Common name: net-winged beetle |
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Order Coleoptera Family Meloidae Common name: blister beetle
Key traits: tarsal claws split |
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Order Coleoptera Family Passalidae Common name: bess beetle
Key traits: shiny black body, longitudinal ridges on elytra, antennae curved, but not elbowed, antennae have terminal segments with enlarged lobes |
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Order Coleoptera Family Scarabaeidae Common name: dung beetle
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Order Coleoptera Family Silphidae Common name: carrion beetle
Key traits: elongate, oval body; black, often with red, yellow, or orange markings; antennae is either clavate or capitate |
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Order Coleoptera Family Staphylinidae Common name: rove beetle
Key traits: short elytra, more than 4 abdominal tergites visible |
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Order Coleoptera Family Tenebrionidae Common name: darkling beetle
Key traits: tarsal forumula is 5-5-4 |
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Order Collembola Common name: springtail or snowflea
Key traits: apterygote (primitively wingless), forked spring tail (furcula) near end of abdomen, peg-like collophore on ventral side of first abdominal segment |
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Furcula |
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Collophore |
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Order Dermaptera Common name: earwig
Key traits: short wing covers, Abdominal cerci modified as pincers |
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Order Diplura Common name: diplurans
Key traits: eyes absent, beaded antennae that is longer than the head, one-segmented tarsi, cerci is filiform or forceps-like |
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Order Diptera |
Common name: True flies
Key traits: only one pair of membranous wings present, hind wings modified as halterers |
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Order Diptera Family Asilidae Common name: robber fly
Key traits: stylate mouthparts surrounded by a beard of long hairs, concave depression on top of head between compound eyes |
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Order Diptera Family Bombyliidae Common name: bee fly
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Order Diptera Family Calliphoridae Common name: blow fly
Key traits: metallic body color, postscutellum absent, calypters large and distinct, arista of antennae mostly plumose |
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Blowfly (Calliphoridae) larvae |
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Order diptera Family Chironimidae Common name: midges
Key traits: long, slender legs; plumose antennae in both sexes, chewing mouthparts with short palps |
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Order Diptera Family Culicidae Common name: mosquito
Key traits: humpbacked thorax, piercing, sucking proboscis; scales on wing veins, males with long maxillary palps and plumose antennae, females with short maxillary palps and less plumose antennae |
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Order Diptera Family Drosophilidae Common name: pomace flies |
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Order Diptera Family Hippoboscidae Common name: louse flies
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Order Diptera Family Muscidae Common name: houseflies
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Order Diptera Family Simuliidae Common name: black fly |
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Order Diptera Family Stratiomyidae Common name: soldier flies
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Order Diptera Family Syrphidae Common name: hover flies, flower flies
Key traits: bee mimics, spurious vein in wing bisects r-m crossvein |
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Order Diptera Family Tabanidae Common name: horsefly, deerfly
Key traits: large, compound eyes cover most of the head; third antennal segment elongated and annulated; veins R4 and R5 diverge to enclose wing tip |
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Order Diptera Family Tachinidae Common name: tachnid flies
Key traits: heavy abdominal bristles, postscutellum, antennae has an unbranched arista |
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Order Diptera Family Tephritidae Common name: fruit flies, huskflies |
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Order Diptera Family Tipulidae Common name: crane flies
Key traits: long, slender legs; easy-to-see halterers, V-shaped surture transects dorsal side of thorax |
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Order Ephemeroptera Common name: mayflies
Key traits: large, triangular front wings; small, fan-shaped hind wings; short, bristle-like antennae |
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Order Gryloblattodae Common name: ice insects
Key traits: cylindrical, wingless body; mandibulate and hypognathous mouthparts, 5-segmented tarsi; long cerci which is 8-segmented |
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Order Hemiptera |
True flies
Key trait: long, slender, beak-shaped mouth that looks like a straw |
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Order Hemiptera Family Belostomatidae Common name: giant water bugs
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Order Hemiptera Family Cimicidae Common name: bedbugs |
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Order Hemiptera Family Coreidae Common name: leaf-footed bugs |
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Order Hemiptera Family Corixidae Common name: water boatmen |
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Order Hemiptera Family Gelastocoridae Common name: toad bugs |
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Order Hemiptera Family Gerridae Common name: water striders |
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Oder Hemiptera Family Lygaeidae Common name: seed bugs |
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Oder Hemiptera Family Miridae Common name: plant bugs |
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Order Hemiptera Family Nepidae Common name: water scorpion |
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Order Hemiptera Family Notonectidae Common name: backswimmers
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Order Hemiptera Family Pentatomidae Common name: stinkbugs
Key traits: mostly brown, but some can be yellow, red, or green |
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Order Hemiptera Family Phymatidae Common name: ambush bugs |
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Order Hemiptera Family Reduviidae Common name: assassin bugs |
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Order Hemiptera Family Tingidae Common name: lace bugs |
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Order Homoptera |
Cicadas, aphids, and hoppers
Key traits: wedge-shaped head, short proboscis, front wings uniform in texture |
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Order Homoptera Family Aphididae Common name: aphids
Key traits: adults may be winged or wingless, cornicles usually present on abdomen |
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Oder Homoptera Family Cercopidae Common name: froghoppers or spittle bugs
Key traits: hind tibia has a crown of large spines at the distal end |
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Order Homoptera Family Cicadellidae Common name: leafhoppers
Key traits: comb-like rows of large spines along tibia of hind legs |
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Oder Homoptera Family Cicadidae Common name: cicadas
Key traits: large body size, membranous wings, three ocelli form a triangle on top of head |
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Order Homoptera Family Dactylopiidae Common name: scale bugs
Key traits: Sessile insects that secrete a protective cover over their soft bodies |
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Order Homoptera Family Fulgoridae Common name: fulgorid planthoppers |
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Oder Homoptera Family Membracidae Common name: treehoppers
Key traits: large pronotum covers the head and extends backward over the abdomen |
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Order Hymenoptera |
Bees, wasps, and ants
Key traits: wasp waist, traingular stigma in front wing of sawflies, horntails, and some wasps; hamuli hold hind and front wings together |
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Order Hymenoptera Family Apidae Common name: honeybees and bumblebees
Key traits: body heavily clothes with branched hairs, first segment of hind tarsi enlarged and flattened and usually bears a pollen "basket" |
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Order Hymenoptera Family Colletidae Common name: plaster bees
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Order Hymenoptera Family Cynipidae Common name: gall wasps |
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Order Hymenoptera Family Formicidae Common name: ants
Key traits: elbowed antennae; wingless workers, winged swarmers (reproductive); peduncle located between thorax and abdomen |
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Order Hymenoptera Family Halicitidae Common name: Alkali bees |
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Order Hymenoptera Family Ichneumonidae Common name: Ichneumons
Key traits: forewings lack a costal cell, 16 or more segments in the antennae, two segmented trochanters, females with a long, slender, ovipositor, horsehead cell visible in front wing |
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Order Hymenoptera Family Megachilidae Common name: leafcutter bees
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Order Hymenoptera Family Multilidae Common name: velvet ants
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Order Hymenoptera Family Siricidae Common name: horntails |
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Order Hymenoptera Family Tenthredidae Common name: common sawflies |
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Order Hymenoptera Family Vespididae Common name: paper wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, potter wasps
Key traits: posterior margin of pronotum distinctly "U" shaped, forewings fold in half longitudinally |
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Oder Isoptera Common name: termites
Key traits: broad junction between thorax and abdomen, workers are cream colored with oval heads and beaded antennae, soldiers have larger heads with prominent mandibles |
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Order Lepidoptera |
Moths & Butterflies
Key traits: front and hind wings have a large surface area, body and wings covered with tiny pigmented scales |
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Order Lepidoptera Family Danaidae Common name: Milkweed butterflies
Key traits: orange color with black markings along wing veins - especially on ventral side |
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Order Lepidoptera Family Hesperiidae Common name: skippers
Key traits: small to medium in size, draw orange or brown coloration; quick, darting flight habits; tip of antennae curved or hooked and widely separated at the base |
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Order Lepidoptera Family Lycaenidae Common name: hairstreaks or blues
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Order Lepidoptera Family Nymphalidae Common name: brush-footed butterflies
Key traits: front legs reduced in size and lacking claws; usually held against the body and not used for walking |
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Order Lepidoptera Family Papilionidae Common name: swallowtails
Key traits: front legs well developted, characteristic tail and hind wings |
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Swallowtail butterfly (Papilionidae) larvae |
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Order Lepidoptera Family Pieridae Common name: whites and sulfurs
Key traits: white or yellow with dark markings, front legs well developed |
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Order Lepidoptera Family Arctiidae Common name: tiger moths, wooly worms
Key traits: antennae filiform, wings often colorfully marked with dark spots or geometric shapes, some species are mostly white with a few dark spots, subcosta (Sc) arises near middle of discal cell in hind wing, four medio-cubital veins reach distal margin of hind wing |
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Order Lepidoptera Family Lymantriidae Common name: Tussock moths |
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Order Lepidoptera Family Noctuidae Common name: noctuid or underwing moths
Key traits: antennae filiform, front wings mottled brown in color, hind wings differ from front wings in color and or pattern, subcosta (sc) arise near base of hind wing, three medio-cubital veins reach distal margin of hind wing |
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Order Lepidoptera Family Pyralidae Common name: pyralid moths
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Order Lepidoptera Family Saturnidae Common name: silk moths
Key traits: large moths with thick, hairy bodies; wings often have transparent eye spots; antennae bipectinate or feathery; antennae larger in males than in females |
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Order Lepidoptera Family Sesiidae Common name: clear-winged moths |
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Order Lepidoptera Family Sphingidae Common name: sphinx moths, hornworms
Key traits: body thick, hairy and spindle-shaped; antennae thickest near mid-point, sometimes bipectinate; long, narrow forewings with posterior angle greater than 120 degrees |
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Order Lepidoptera Family Tetricidae Common name: tortricid moths
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