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Butterflies and moths
•mostly 4 wings with scales
•most have a coiled probosis for drinking
nectar
True Flies “2 wings”
•Usually 1 pair of wings (HW reduced)
•Similar to hymenoptera but canʼt sting
Stone flies
•immature lives in water, two “tails”
•adults have 4 membranous wings, with
many veins
•soft, flattened and elongated body
Caddisfiles “hair wing”
•immaturelive in waters, some for rock
cases (rockrollers)
•adults look like slender moths
•4 wings held in rooflike position
•thread antenna usually longer than body
Dragonflies,damsel flies “toothed”
•2 pair of netted transparent wings
•dragonflies hold wings horizontal, broad
base of wings
•damselflies hold wings back, narrow
base of wings
•immature live in water
Mayflies
•adults live “for a day”
•small HW, 3 “tails”
•wings above thorax
•immature live in water 3 “tails”
True bugs “half-winged”
•FW is half thick and half thin
•segmented sucking mouth parts
•wings form an “X” pattern of back
•wings lay flat on back
Grasshoppers, crickets, katydids
•Leathery front wings
•Jumping hind leg
•chewing mouth parts
Beetles “sheath wing”
•FW thick called elytra, forms a straight
line down middle of back
•HW membranous
•mandibles, complete metamorphosis
•large order of insects
Lacewings, antlions, “nerve wing”
•4 membranous wings, many veins
•wings elongate & held rooflike over
abdomen
•antenna long, some end in club shape
•chewing mouthparts
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Hymenoptera
Dermaptera
Diplopoda
Isoptera
Crustacea
Siphonaptera
Homoptera
Chilapoda
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Earwigs “skin wing”
•focep like cerci
•elongate and flattened body
Bees, wasps, ants “membrane wing”
•usually 4 membranous wings, HW a
little smaller, few veins
•usually long antenna
•often with stinger
Termites “Same wing”
•similar to white ants
•FW and HW look the same
•thorax and abdomen “broad” waist
•social insects - queen, soldiers,
workers
Millipedes “thousand feet”
•2 pair of legs per segment (about 60)
•worm-like, cylindrical, short antenna
•curl up when disturbed and secrete
droplets that smell
Fleas “tube & wingless”
•small wingless ectoparasites
•body is flattened sideways
•jumping hind legs
•found on many birds and mammals
shrimp, lobster, crayfish, sowbugs
•mostly aquatic, with gills
•2 pair of antenna
•5+ pairs of leglike appendages
•2 body parts, cephalothorax (often
covered by a carapace) and abdomen
Centipedes “100 legs”
•1 pair of legs per segment (about 30)
•worm-like flattened, fast moving
•poison “jaws”, antenna long
Cicadas, hoppers, aphids, scale
insects
•sucking insects, short beak
•FW & HW mostly membranous, some
wingless ones
•wings held in roof like position above
back
grasshoppers, flies, beetles etc.
•3 body parts (head, thorax abdomen)
•3 pair of legs, usually 1 pair of
antenna
•usually 2 pair of wings
•largest group of Arthropods