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| Predominately predaceous beetles. Hind coxa fused to metasternum, completely dividing the first visible abdominal sternite. Notopleural suture present. Antennae usually thread-like. Tarsal formula 5-5-5. |
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| Mandibles large, sickle-shaped, with long teeth. Clypeus extends laterally over bases of antennae; antennae arising on frons between eyes. Eyes usually protruding beyond lateral margins of the pronotum. These are aptly named, fast-moving pedators. |
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| Mandibles variable, sometimes sickle-shaped, usually without long teeth. Clypeus not extending laterally over bases of antennae; antennae arising on sides of head. Eyes usually not protruding beyond lateral margins of the pronotum. |
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| Antennae long, filiform, and could be confused with the elongate maxillary palps of hydrophilids. Maxillary palps are much shorter than antennae. Tibiae and tarsi of flattened hind legs fringed with long hairs. Overall body shape characteristically oval, convex, and streamlined. |
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| Various feeding habits. Hind coxae not fused to metasternum, not dividing the first visible abdominal sternite. Notopleural suture usuallly not present. Most beetles are in this suborder. |
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| Antennae short, clavate or capitate. Maxillary palps longer than antennae, and easily confused with antennae. Thorax with prosternal spine commonly present, extending between coxae. Hind legs flattened often with a fringe of hairs. Tarsal formula 5-5-5 |
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| Antennae filiform or clavate. Tarsi usually 5-5-5, but sometimes 4-5-5, 4-4-4, 5-4-4, 3-3-3, 2-2-2. Elytra short, exposing several abdominal segments, a few species apterous. Overall body shape elongate, with a flexible abdomen. The tip of the abdomen is often bent upwards when disturbed as if it were ready to sting. |
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| Terminal antennal segments are lamellate plates that form a compact club (see first lab handout on general insect morphology). Forelegs often with fossorial tibiae; tarsi of other legs elongate. Heavy-bodied, shape often oval, robust, strongly convex, but quite variable in size. Tarsal formula 5-5-5 |
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| Antennae usually serrate, but may be filiform or pectinate. Prothorax loosely joined to mesothorax, lateral hind margins of pronotum extend backwards forming sharp points. Prosternum with a spine that fits in a mesosternal groove. Makes a clicking sound with the prosternal spine. Tarsal formula 5-5-5 |
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| Antennae short, moniliform to clavate to slightly clubbed, usually inserted under a ridge. Eyes almost always emarginate or notched; head not strongly constricted behind eyes. Tarsal formula 5-5-4 |
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long-horned beetles, round headed woodborers.
Antennae filiform or serrate, usually at least half the length of the body, often longer. Eyes usually notched with antennae arising from notch. Body elongate and cylindrical. Tarsal formula apparently 4-4-4 (another segment small and hidden in bilobed third segment) |
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| Antennae filiform or clavate, usually less than half the length of the body. Eyes usually entire, not notched. Variety of body forms, some have enlarged hind femora. Tarsal formula apparently 4-4-4 (another segment small and hidden in bilobed third segment) |
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| Antennae capitate, often geniculate or elbowed. Head produced into a snout of variable proportions. Many have scales on elytra and prothorax. The most abundant group of beetles. Tarsal formula apparently 4-4-4 (another segment small and hidden in bilobed third segment) |
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| Antennae short, clavate to capitate. Body broadly oval, round, convex dorsally and nearly flat ventrally. Often brightly colored with black markings. Tarsal formula apparently 3-3-3 (one segment minute, second segment bilobed) |
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| Diagnosis of adults-- 2 pair of wings or absent; covered with scales and with or without frenulum or jugum (wing coupling devices). Large compound eyes; conspicuous antennae of filiform, clavate, or plumose type. Labial palps often conspicuous, mandible usually reduced; long suctorial proboscis formed by galea of maxilla. |
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| Diagnosis of larvae-- eruciform, with mandibles, thoracic legs and up to 5 pairs of prolegs; crochets present. Rarely without legs. Pupa with or without a cocoon. |
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| Medium to large, heavy body, dense fur-like hairs on body. Color often white and variously marked with gray, yellow, red or black in a spotted or banded pattern. Antennae pectinate. Wings held roof-like over back, tympana on thorax, beneath hind wings. Larvae called "woolly bears". |
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| Medium to large, heavy body, head large. Proboscis very long (2-3 times body length), antennae thick; triangular in cross-section. Forewings long and narrow, often pointed with sinuate margin; hind wings much shorter than forewings and often with bright colors. No tympana. Larvae called "hornworms". |
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| Medium to large with broad wings. Largest moths in CA. Often, wings are brightly colored. Antennae are plumose, particularly in males. Wings usually with eyespots, sometimes with long tails, as in the Luna Moth. |
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| Small to medium, stout bodied; colors usually dull brown or black with white markings, some metallic. Antennae clubbed with apical hook (apiculus) at tip. Labial palps conspicuous, often turned up. Wings usually held apart at rest. |
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| Large with bright patterns, often with metallic colors. Hind wing with single anal vein; hind wings often with tails. Forelegs with large tibial spur. Tarsal claws simple. Antennae often knobbed but not hooked at tip. |
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| Medium size, slender body, colors usually white, yellow, orange and with black markings. Antennae knobbed. Hind wings with 2 anal veins. Tarsal claws bifid or forked. |
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| Small to very small; upper surface of wings often metallic blue. Eyes with narrow border of white scales, antennae with white rings (annulated). Forelegs of males short. |
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| Small to large-sized. Vary greatly in color. Forelegs greatly reduced in both sexes and not used for walking. Wings usually not elongate, forewings usually broad and trangular. Hindwings with 2 anal veins. |
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| One pair of wings. Diagnosis of adults-- mouthparts mostly sponging, but some piercing-sucking, piercing -lapping, or vestigial. Wings of mesothorax present, functional; wings of metathorax reduced to halteres; some species apterous, but rarely lacking halteres. |
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| Antennae usually thread-like, 6+ segments, often longer than thorax. Legs usually long and slender, body is soft. |
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| Minute to large-sized, slender-bodied, legs long and slender. Thorax with v-shaped suture on mesonotum. Wings long and narrow, two anal veins reaching wing margin, some apterous species. |
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| Small to medium-sized. Wings long and narrow, fringed with scales and often scaled along veins. Mouthparts of females in a piercing-sucking proboscis. Antennae plumose in males, with hairy whorls in females. Body often scaled. Only females are blood feeders. |
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| Small to medium-sized. Wings long and narrow; subcosta and radius and its branches heavier than other veins. Antennae elongate, hairy-- plumose in males. Long, slender front legs. Median longitudinal groove or ridge on scutellum. |
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| Antennae with 5 or less segments, usually 1-2 small segments with the third often the largest. Remaining antennal segments often smaller, forming a style or rarely an arista. Radial sector vein usually 3-branched. Relatively stout-bodied, medium to large-sized flies. |
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| Small to medium flies, robust, and hairy. Wings held to side at rest; wings often patterned. Has slender proboscis that often extends forward. The 2 anterior branches of the radial sector sinuate. Many are pollinators of angiosperm plants and bee mimics. |
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| Small to very large, robust or slender, often bristly. Head wide, eyes large, vertex deeply concave. Face appears more or less bearded. Stout thorax and legs. Adults are predacious. |
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| Named after the opening they create to exit the puparium. Antennae 3-segmented and aristate, Radial sector vein usually 2-branched. Ptilinum used for emerging from puparium. Frontal suture of adults marks location of ptilinum. |
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| Small to large; varicolored, often mimetic (of bees). Rarely with bristles on the body. Head hemispherical, eyes large, often holoptic. Abdomen commonly striped yellow and black. Wing with spurious vein, actually a wing fold, between R and M. |
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| Usually small to medium sized and grayish. Calypters of the wings usually well-developed. Hypopleural bristles usually absent; if present, then pteropleural bristles absent. |
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| Small to medium sized, mostly metallic blue or green. Calypters of the wings usually well-developed. Arista plumose to or nearly to the tip. Hypopleural and pteropleural bristles present. Usually 2, rarely 3, notopleural bristles. |
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| Diagnosis of adults-- Extremely minute to very large; exoskeleton usually tough or hard, color pattern variable. Eyes usually large; usually 3 ocelli; chewing mouthparts with modifications for lapping. Antennae usually composed of 13 segments in males, 12 in females. Wings absent or present; if present then 2 pairs with forewings larger than hindwings, both coupled by hamuli, stigma usually present. Ovipositor well developed, often long and conspicuous. Tarsi usually 5-segmented. |
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| Body stout or slender, with strong constriction between segments 1 and 2 of abdomen. First segment of abdomen fused to thorax (propodeum), remainder of abdomen is termed the metasoma. 2 pairs or no wings, hindwings with 2 or fewer basal cells. Trochanters 1 or 2 segmented. Ovipositor slender, needle-like. |
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| Minute to large; abdomen usually slender, compressed; long slender legs. Antennae filiform, 16+ segments. Wings usually present, 2 recurrent veins. Ovipositor may be longer than body. Pronotum in profile more or less triangular and extending to tegula or nearly so. Hind trochanters 2-segmented. |
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| Very hairy wasps that resemble ants, and are often brightly colored. Males are winged, but females are wingless. Larvae are mostly parasites of ground-nesting bees and wasps. |
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| Social insects often forming large colonies. Minute to medium size; reproductives with wings which are shed. Sterile castes, of many types, without wings. Antennae geniculate. Metasoma with first, or first and second segments reduced in size and bearing a dorsal "node" that is easily seen in profile. |
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| Medium to large size; various combinations of black, yellow, white, or red; antennae straight. Wings folded longitudinally at rest; first discoidal cell long; pronotum triangular in profile and nearly or does touches tegula. Some species social, others solitary. Eyes often notched. Hind trochanters 1-segmented. |
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| Small to very large size; body usually shining blue-black or reddish; wings often dark or reddish. Wings not folded longitudinally at rest; rarely without wings. Mesopleuron with oblique suture; pronotum triangular in profile and nearly or does touches tegula. Antennae of females 12-segmented, curled; antennae of males 13 segmented, straight. Legs long and spiny. Hind trochanters 1-segmented. |
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| Small to large size; metasoma often attached to mesosoma by a petiole. Pronotum short and collar-like, not touching tegulae. Hairs on body simple, usually sparse. Hind basitarsus slender. Mostly predaceous on other insects. Hind trochanters 1-segmented. |
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| Small to very large, usually robust. Labrum broader than long; glossa long. Females with pollen carrying structures on the hind legs; some species do not collect pollen. Body hairs branched or plumose. Pronotum short and collar-like, with a rounded lobe on each side that does not touch tegulae. Jugal lobe of hindwing shorter than submedian cell. Forewing usually with 3 submarginal cells. Hind trochanters 1-segmented. |
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| Small to medium size; often black or metallic green and sometimes with abdomen banded with white. Probocis (tongue) short. Jugal lobe of hindwing longer than submedian cell. Basal vein strongly curved. Body hairs branched or plumose. Pronotum short and collar-like, with a rounded lobe on each side that does not touch tegulae. Forewing usually with 2 or 3 submarginal cells. Hind trochanters 1-segmented. Body hairs branched or plumose. |
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| Small to medium sized. May be metallic, but often black or brownish with abdomen sometimes banded with white. Jugal lobe of hindwing shorter than submedian cell. Forewing usually with almost 2 equal-sized submarginal cells. Females have pollen transport hairs on ventral aspect of abdomen = scopa. Glossa or tongue long and slender. Pronotum short and collar-like, with a rounded lobe on each side that does not touch tegulae. Body hairs branched or plumose. Hind trochanters 1-segmented. |
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| (suborder) - all have 5-5-5 |
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| Cicindelidae, Carabidae, Dytiscidae, Hydrophilidae, Staphylinidae, Scarabaeidae, Elateridae |
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| Cerambycidae, Chrysomelidae, Curculionidae |
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| Tenebrionidae, Cerambycidae, Vespidae |
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| (families) [3] - notched/emarginate eyes |
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| (family) - hind trochanters 2-segmented |
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| Ichneumonidae, Vespidae, Pompilidae, |
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| (families) [3] - pronotum touches tegula |
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| (family) - Scopa on underside |
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| (families) [2] - jugal lobe shorter than submedian cell |
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| (families) [2] - two submarginal cells |
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| (family) - large mandibles, hind coxa fused with metasternum, clypeus doesn't extend laterally beyond antennal bases |
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