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INSECT
TAXONOMIC
DIVERSITY
By: Chase Johnson
INSECT ORDERS
• Ephemeroptera
• Diptera
• Odonata
• Siphonoptera
• Blattaria
• Hymenoptera
• Isoptera
• Mantodea
• Dermatptera
• Plecoptera
• Orthoptera
• Phasmida
• Hemiptera
• Coleoptera
• Lepidoptera
EPHEMEROPTERA
Mayflies or shadflies are insects belonging to
the order Ephemeroptera. They have been
placed into an ancient group of insects termed
the Palaeoptera, which also contains
dragonflies and damselflies.
ODONATA
• Odonata is an order of
carnivorous insects,
encompassing dragonflies and
damselflies. The word
dragonfly is also sometimes
used to refer to all Odonata,
but odonate is a more correct
English name for the group as
a whole.
BLATTARIA
• Cockroaches are
insects of the order
Blattodea,
sometimes also
called Blattaria, of
which about 30
species out of 4,600
total are associated
with human
habitats. About four
species are well
known as pests.
ISOPTERA
• Termites are a
group of eusocial
insects that, until
recently, were
classified at the
taxonomic rank of
order Isoptera, but
are now accepted
as the infraorder
Isoptera, of the
cockroach order
Blattodea.
DERMATPTERA
• 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.
ORTHOPTERA
• 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.
PHASMIDA
• The Phasmatodea
are an order of
insects, whose
members are
variously known as
stick insects, walking
sticks or stick-bugs,
phasmids, ghost
insects and leaf
insects.
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.
COLEOPTERA
• The Coleoptera order
of insects is commonly
called beetles. The
word "coleoptera" is
from the Greek κολεός,
koleos, meaning
"sheath"; and πτερόν,
pteron, meaning
"wing", thus "sheathed
wing", because most
beetles have two pairs
of wings, the front
LEPIDOPTERA
• 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
DIPTERA
• True flies are
insects of the
order Diptera.
Their most obvious
distinction from
other orders of
insects is that a
typical fly
possesses a pair of
flight wings on the
mesothorax and a
pair of halteres
SIPHONOPTERA
• Fleas are the insects
forming the order
Siphonaptera. They
are wingless, with
mouthparts adapted
for piercing skin and
sucking blood. Fleas
are external
parasites, living by
hematophagy off the
blood of mammals
and birds.
HYMENOPTERA
• The Hymenoptera
are one of the
largest orders of
insects, comprising
the sawflies, wasps,
bees and ants. Over
150,000 species are
recognized, with
many more
remaining to be
described.
MANTODEA
• Mantodea is an
order of insects
that contains
over 2,400
species and
about 430 genera
in 15 families
worldwide in
temperate and
tropical habitats.
Most of the
species are in the
family Mantidae.
PLECOPTERA
• The Plecoptera are
an order of insects,
commonly known
as stoneflies. Some
3,500 species are
described
worldwide, with
new species still
being discovered.
Stoneflies are
found worldwide,
except Antarctica.
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