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*INSECT TAXONOMY DIVERSITY*
By : Mo’Esha Jackson
*INSECT ORDERS*
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Emhemeroptera
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Diptera
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Odonata
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Siphonoptera
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Blattaria
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Hymenoptera
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Isoptera
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Mantodea
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Dermatpera
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Plecoptera
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Orthoptera
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Phasmida
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Hemiptera
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Coleoptera
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Lepidoptera
• EPHEMEROPTERA
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Ephemeroptera comes from the
Greek ephemeros meaning lasting
a day and pteron meaning wing.
the adults exhibit an erratic up and
down flight pattern over water or
nearby rocks and bushes, mate in
flight, lay eggs on the surface of a
water body and die, usually within
a day but ranging from a few
minutes to several days. The adults
have no functioning mouthparts
with which to feed, their only
purpose is reproduction and
dispersal.
• ODONATA
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Odonata is divided into two
suborders, Zygoptera (damselflies)
and Epiprocta (dragonflies), both
have aquatic juvenile stages. As
exopterygote insects (incomplete
metamorphosis), there can be
confusion as to whether juvenile
dragonflies should be called
nymphs or larvae. Tillyard (1917)
decided that by definition larval
structure differs significantly from
adult form and therefore
dragonflies are larvae because
they do not exhibit the elongated
abdomen that damselflies do.
• BLATTARIA
The oriental cockroach, also
known as the waterbug, is a
large species of cockroach
 adult males being 18–29 mm
and adult females being 20–
27 mm.
 Scientific name: Blatta
orientalis
 Biological classification:
Species
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• ISOPTERA
Scientific name: Termitoidae
Consists of: Termopsidae · Mastotermes darwiniensis
· Kalotermitidae · Hodotermitidae · Rhinotermitidae ·
Termitidae · Serritermitidae
3. Belongs to: Cockroach
4.Termites are a group of eusocial insects that, until
recently, were classified at the taxonomic rank of
order Isoptera
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• DERMATPTERA
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Earwigs make up the insect order
Dermaptera and are found throughout
the Americas, Africa, Eurasia,
Australia and New Zealand. With about
2,000 species in 12 families, they are
one of the smaller insect orders
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Scientific name: Dermaptera
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Higher classification: Exopterygota
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Rank: Order
• ORTHOPTERA
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Orthoptera is an order of insects with
paurometabolous or incomplete
metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers,
crickets, cave crickets, Jerusalem crickets,
katydids, weta, lubber, Acrida, and locusts.
Scientific name: Orthoptera
Rank: Order
Higher classification: Exopterygota
Lower classifications: Ensifera, Grasshopper
• PHASMIDA
The Phasmatodea are an
order of insects, whose members
are variously known as stick
insects, walking sticks or stickbugs, phasmids, ghost insects
and leaf insects
2. Scientific name: Phasmatodea
3. Higher classification:
Exopterygota
4. Rank: Order
5. Lower classifications:
Diapheromeridae,
Pseudophasmatidae,
Phasmatidae
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• HEMIPTERA
Hemiptera is an order of insects most
often known as the true bugs,
comprising around 50,000–80,000
species of cicadas, aphids, planthoppers,
leafhoppers, shield bugs, and others.
2. Scientific name: Hemiptera
3. Rank: Order
4. Higher classification: Exopterygota
5. Lower classifications: Peloridiidae,
Auchenorrhyncha, Sternorrhyncha,
Heteroptera
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• COLEOPTERA
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Coleoptera (beetles and
weevils) is the largest order
in the class Insecta. The
Coleoptera order of insects
is commonly called beetles.
beetles are regarded as
major pests of agricultural
plants and stored products
• LEPIDOPTERA
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Lepidoptera is a large order of
insects that includes moths and
butterflies. It is one of the most
widespread and widely
recognizable insect orders in
the world, encompassing moths
and the three. It is one of the
most widespread and widely
recognizable insect orders in
the world,[1] encompassing
moths and the three
superfamilies of butterflies,
skipper butterflies, and mothbutterflies.
• DIPTERA
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The order Diptera
includes all true
flies. These insects are
distinctive because their
hind wings are reduced
to small, club-shaped
structures called halteres
- only the membranous
front wings serve as
aerodynamic
surfaces. The halteres
vibrate during flight and
work much like a
gyroscope to help the
insect maintain balance.
• SIPHONOPTERA
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Fleas are the insects forming the
order Siphonaptera. They are
wingless, with mouthparts adapted
for piercing skin and sucking blood.
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Adults : Body bilaterally flattened
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Mouthparts suctorial (haustellate)
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Large bristles (ctenidia) often present
on head or thorax (genal and
pronotal combs)
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Hind femur enlarged, adapted for
jumping
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Immatures: Body vermiform
(maggot-like), sparsely covered with
hairs
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Head reduced, eyeless, mouthparts
mandibulate
• HYMENOPTERA
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Immatures: Sawflies: Eruciform
(caterpillar-like); well developed head
capsule; chewing mouthparts; fleshy
abdominal prolegs
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Bees and wasps: Grub-like; well developed
head; chewing mouthparts; legless and
eyeless
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Parasitic wasps: Body form highly reduced;
lacking head, eyes or appendages
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Adults: Chewing mouthparts - except in
bees where maxillae and labium form a
proboscis for collecting nectar.
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Compound eyes well developed.
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Tarsi usually 5-segmented.
• MANTODEA
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Adults:
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Filiform antennae
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Head triangular with well-developed compound eyes
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Mouthparts mandibulate, hypognathous
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Prothorax elongate with large, spiny front legs
adapted for catching prey
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Front wings thickened, more slender than hind wings
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Tarsi 5-segmented
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Cerci short, multi-segmented
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Immatures:
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Structurally similar to adults
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Developing wingpads often visible on thorax
• PLECOPTERA
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Immatures
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Antennae long, filiform
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Body flattened, legs widely separated
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Tracheal gills present as "tufts" behind the head, at base of
legs, or around the anus
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Each segment of thorax is covered by a large dorsal sclerite
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Cerci long, multi-segmented
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Adults
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Antennae long, filiform
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Front wings long and narrow; M-Cu crossveins form distinctive
boxes near center of front wing
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Hind wings shorter than front wings; basal area of hind wing
enlarged and pleated
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Cerci long, multi-segmented
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