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Insect Orders
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Zoology
Undergraduate 2
12/01/2016

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Term
What order to Springtails belong to?
Definition
Collembola
Term
What order to silverfish belong to?
Definition
Zygentoma
Term
What order do mayflies belong to?
Definition
Ephemeroptera
Term
What separates diplurans from proturans?
Definition
Diplurans are generally larger, have antennae, have a 10 segmented abdomen (proturans 12), have terminal cerci (filiform to forceps-like)
Term
What order do damselflies and dragonflies belong to?
Definition
Odonata
Term
What are the main differences between dragonflies and damselflies?
Definition

Damselflies:  Fore and hind wings equal, compound eyes separated, wings held closed above abdomen

 

Dragonflies: Hind wings wider than forewings, compound eyes nearly in contact, wings held open horizontally or downwards

Term
What order do stoneflies belong to?
Definition
Plecoptera
Term
What order do earwigs belong to?
Definition
Dermaptera
Term
What order do mosquitoes belong to?
Definition
Diptera
Term
What order to angel insects belong to?
Definition
Zoraptera
Term
What order do grasshoppers, locusts, katydids and crickets belong to?
Definition
Orthoptera
Term
What order do webspinners belong to?
Definition
Embioptera
Term
What order do stick insects and walking insects belong to?
Definition
Phasmatodea
Term
What order do ice crawlers or rock crawlers belong to?
Definition
Grylloblattodea
Term
What order to heelwalkers belong to?
Definition
Mantophasmatodea
Term
What order do mantids, mantises or praying mantids belong to?
Definition
Mantodea
Term
What order do termites or white ants belong to?
Definition
Blattodea
Term
What family do cockroaches or roaches belong to?
Definition
Blattodea
Term
What order do bark lice and book lice belong to?
Definition
Psocodea
Term
What order do thrips belong to?
Definition
Thysanoptera
Term
What order do bugs and cicadas belong to?
Definition
Hemiptera
Term
What order do aphids and scale insects belong to?
Definition
Hemiptera
Term
What order do leafhoppers, spittle bugs and treehoppers belong to?
Definition
Hemiptera
Term
What order do lacewings, owlflies and antlions belong to?
Definition
Neuroptera
Term
What family do alderflies, dobsonflies and fishflies belong to?
Definition
Megaloptera
Term
What order do snakeflies belong to?
Definition
Raphidioptera
Term
What order do beetles belong to?
Definition
Coleoptera
Term
What order am I?  Small, aberrant endoparisitoids.  Male with large head and bulging eyes, female wingless and larviform.
Definition
Strepsiptera
Term

True flies are in what order?

 

Definition
Diptera
Term
What order are hangingflies, scorpionflies and snowfleas?
Definition
Mecoptera
Term
What order are fleas in?
Definition
Siphonaptera
Term
What order are caddisflies in?
Definition
Trichoptera
Term
What order are butterflies and moths in?
Definition
Lepidoptera
Term
What order are ants, bees, wasps, sawflies and wood wasps in?
Definition
Hymenoptera
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