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| Orders of primitive, wingless insects in which the young hatch from the egg resembling young adults |
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| Orders of insect that undergo a marked change in form, metamorphosis |
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a sub group of Pterygota (winged insects)
egg > Larva > Adult |
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a sub group of Pterygota (winged)
Egg > Larva > Pupal > Adult |
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Bristletails
Wingless
Styles
Scavengers
Found in litter, soil and arid regions |
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Silverfish
Wingless
Small, elongated, flattened body with silvery scales
scavengers
found in soil, litter, trees but more commonly in buildings. |
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Mayflies (paleoptra)
Aquatic larvae
non-functional mouth parts
mating swarms |
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| Dragonflies and Damselflies |
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Stoneflies
Larval stage aquatic
weak flying adults |
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cockroaches
eggs laid in toughened case
front wings toughened to protect the membranous hind wings |
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Mantis
Triangular heads
raptoral front legs
females eat males after copulation |
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Rock crawlers
wingless (apterygote)
Rare
high altitudes |
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Earwigs
drab and nocturnal
telescopic abdomen |
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Straight wing- grasshoppers crickets
longer hind legs
saddle shaped pronotum
make sounds with hind legs |
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(ghost) stick insects
blend into foliage they live in |
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(having life) Web spinners
live in sunken galleries
females do not venture out of galleries only males to fertilise other galleries' females |
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Small termite like insects
eat fungal threads
only 30 species described |
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(gnawed wing) Booklice/ barklice
common, cryptic, small
adult and larval stages feed on fungi lichen algae and plant debris |
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(louse, wingless) Parasitic Lice
permanent ectoparasites
vectors of human and animal disease. |
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(halfwing) Bugs, aphids, hoppers
piercing and sucking rostrum
disease and pests
large abundant and diverse group
Periodical Cicadas 17/13 years |
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Thrips
liquid feeders
pests and disease vectors |
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(large wing) Alderflies
aquatic larvae poor adult fliers |
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(needle wing) Snake flies
Long neck appearance
larvae live under bark |
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| (nervewing) lace wing antlions |
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(sheath wing) Beetles
30% of all known animals are beetles
prothorax is distinct |
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Curculionidae are most species rich family
destroys crops |
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