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Proturans/Coneheads: soil-dwelling hexapods. Grad-meta.
Primitive with no eyes, No wings, scraping mouth, and no pigmentation. |
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Collembola/Springtails/Snow Fleas:
have specialized forked structure (furcula) on ventral side of abdomen—for “springing”
mouthparts: various
gradual metamorphosis |
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Thysanurans/Silverfish/Firebrats:
elongate form, flattened, w/3 tail-like appendages
body covered w/scales
mouthparts: mandibulate (=biting/chewing)
gradual metamorphosis |
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Diplurans/Two-pronged Bristletails:
no compound eyes or ocelli
2 caudal filaments (“tails”)
usually pale
mouthparts: mandibulate (=biting/ chewing)
gradual metamorphosis |
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Mayflies
Incomplete life cycle (type 2): eggnaiad(subimago)adult naiad=aquatic, gill-breathing nymph
Naiads: lg eyes, chewing/scraping mouthparts, gills on ABDOMEN, THREE “tails”
Adults: subimago stage short-lived adult
Soft-bodied
Vestigial (non-functioning) mouthparts |
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dragon- & damselflies
2 sub-orders: Anisoptera (dragonflies) & Zygoptera (damselflies)
Incomplete life cycle (type 2): eggnaiadadult
Nymphs (naiads) different by suborder; both have elaborate, unique mouthparts
Dragons: elongate or squat; no tails– gills INSIDE abdomen
Damsels: elongate and thin; 3 gill “tails”
Adults: live for couple wks to couple months
Long, hardened body
Long legs
Chewing mouthparts
Dragons: wings held open at rest; Damsels: wings held erect over abdomen at rest |
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Stoneflies
Incomplete life cycle (type 2): eggnaiadadult
Naiads: elongate (5 – 60 mm + tails), flattened, chewing mouthparts, gills on THORAX, TWO long “tails”, long antennae
Adults: (no subimago stage) short-lived adult
Long, flattened, soft body |
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| Stick bugs, walking sticks, leaf insects |
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| Grasshoppers, crickets, cave crickets, Jerusalem crickets, katydids, weta, lubber, Acrida, and locusts. |
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| booklice, barklice or barkflies |
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40,000 species of insects in the Hemiptera. Sometimes called "true bugs", most species have forewings with both membranous and hardened portions
Assassin bugs (Reduviidae)
Broad-headed bugs (Alydidae)
Bedbugs and flower bugs (Cimicidae)
Plant bugs (c.6,000 species of Miridae)
Leaf-footed bugs, squash bugs and sweetpotato bugs (Coreidae)
Seed bugs (mainly Lygaeidae and Rhyparochromidae)
Stink bugs or shield bugs (Pentatomidae and related families) |
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| aphids, scale insects, cicadas, and leafhoppers. They are all "true bugs" and they all have sucking mouthparts. |
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| Thrips (Order Thysanoptera) are tiny, slender insects with fringed wings |
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| a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies and skippers |
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| True flies. 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, |
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| Lacewings, mantidflies, antlions, and their relatives. |
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| Alderflies, dobsonflies and fishflies |
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| Sawflies, wasps, bees and ants |
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| Beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek κολεός, koleos, meaning "sheath"; and πτερόν, pteron, meaning "wing", thus "sheathed wing |
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| Twisted-wing parasites of other bugs - bees/beetles. |
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Gradual Metamorphosis = Incomplete = Hemimetabolous
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egg-nymph-adult
Grad Type 1: Nymph smaller incomplete adult look-alike.
Grad Type 2: Nymph different/lives in diff environment (naiad, but not always) |
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Complete Metamorphosis = Holometabolous
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| The insect between successive molts, the first instar being between hatching and the 1st molt |
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| To lay eggs; ovipositor is used by females to lay eggs |
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| Pair of appendages at posterior end of abdomen |
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| Development of the egg without fertilization |
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| The juvenile stages (before adult) of insects with gradual/incomplete metamorphosis |
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| Aquatic, gill-breathing nymph |
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| juvenile, pre-pupal stages of insects with complete metamorphosis |
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| the stage betw the larva & adult in insects w/complete metamorphosis; a non-feeding and usually inactive stage |
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| Name 4 orders of Apterygote (primitively wingless hexapod) |
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Protura (proturans)
Collembola (springtails)
Diplura (diplurans)
Thysanura (silverfish) |
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–the science of classification into categories of varying rank, and the describing and naming of these categories
-the study of the relationships among organisms |
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| of, at, toward, or from the side or sides. |
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| nearer the front, esp. situated in the front of the body or nearer to the head. |
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| the end of an organism opposite to its head. |
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compound eye &
ocelli (pl.) |
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-The eye of most insects and some crustaceans, which is composed of many light- sensitive elements, each having its own refractive system
- A small simple eye, found in many invertebrates, usually consisting of a few sensory cells and a single lens. |
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| paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods |
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| 1st pair of jaws; move laterally; many modifications, many uses |
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| 2nd pair of jaws, usually have palps; move laterally |
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| 3rd pair of mouthparts‘lower lip’; fused together, has palps; moves longitudinally |
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| is like an ‘upper lip’, and it is not paired. |
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| dorsal region of the prothorax, usually sclerotized (hard) |
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| Coxa, Trocanter, Femur, Tibia, Spurs, Tarsus, Claws |
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| a hearing organ in insects |
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| The ventral shield or plate of each segment of the body of an insect |
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| The dorsall shield or plate of each segment of the body of an insect |
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| on their exoskeletons to allow air to enter the trachea |
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