Term
Odonata
(Hexapoda/Insectica)
(Arthropoda) |
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Definition
Dragonflies and Damselflies
- hemimetabolous (nymph stage) |
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Term
Orthoptera
(Hexapoda/Insectica)
(Arthropoda) |
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Definition
Grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids
- hemimetabolous (nymph stage) |
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Term
Hemiptera/Heteroptera
(Hexapoda/Insectica)
(Arthropoda) |
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Definition
True bugs
Stinkbugs, waterbugs
- hemimetabolous (nymph stage)
- piercing, sucking mouth parts
- half hard winged, half soft |
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Term
Hemiptera/Auchenorrhynca
(Hexapoda/Insectica)
(Arthropoda) |
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Definition
Leafhoppers, cicadas
- can make noise
- leaf eaters
- hemimetabolous (nymph stage) |
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Term
Coleoptera
(Hexapoda/Insectica)
(Arthropoda) |
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Definition
Beetles
- holometabolous (larval different from adult) |
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Term
Diptera
(Hexapoda/Insectica)
(Arthropoda) |
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Definition
True flies
- holometabolous (larval different from adult) |
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Term
Lepidoptera
(Hexapoda/Insectica)
(Arthropoda) |
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Definition
Butterflies, moths, skippers
- holometbolous |
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Term
Hymenoptera
(Hexapoda/Insectica)
(Arthropda) |
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Definition
Bees, wasps, ants
- holometabolous
- sting-y |
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Term
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Definition
- head, thorax, abdomen
- antennae
- mouthparts
- three pairs of walking legs |
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Term
Diplopoda
(Myriapoda)
(Arthropoda) |
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Definition
Millipedes
- each body segment has two pairs of legs
- feed on dead leaves and plants |
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Term
Chilopoda
(Myriapoda)
(Arthropoda) |
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Definition
Centipedes
- one pair of legs per segment
- poisonous and bitey |
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Term
Copepoda
(Crustacea)
(Arthropoda) |
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Definition
Cyclops
- freshwater
- small, cylindrical, single eye, antenna |
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Term
Ostracoda
(Crustacea)
(Arthropoda) |
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Definition
Seed shrimp
- tiny!
- two shell-like valves covering body
- superficially resemble clams |
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Term
Branchiopoda
(Crustacea)
(Arthropoda) |
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Definition
Water fleas, fairy shrimp, brine shrimp
- feathery appendages for filter feeding and gas exchange
ex. Daphnia |
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Term
Cirripedia
(Crustacea)
(Arthropoda) |
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Definition
Barnacles
- calcareous plates |
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Term
Malacostraca
(Crustacea)
(Arthropoda) |
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Definition
Crayfishes, crabs, lobsters, etc
- gills at base of legs
- exoskeletons with calcium deposits
- delicious |
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Term
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Definition
Trilobites
- extinct
- trilobed bodies |
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Term
Merostomara
(Chelicerata)
(Arthropoda) |
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Definition
Horseshoe crabs
- six pairs of flat plates
- book gills (folded, not branched) |
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Term
Pycnogonida
(Chelicerata)
(Arthropoda) |
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Definition
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Term
Arachnida
(Chelicerata)
(Arthropoda) |
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Definition
Spiders, ticks, mites, scorpions
- eight legs
- scary |
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Term
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Definition
- two pairs of antennae
- jaw-like mandibles
- mouth parts (maxillae)
- appendages are biramous (branched) |
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Term
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Definition
- specialized appendages near mouth called chelicera (captures and kills prey)
- pedipalps (helps manipulate food towards mouth)
- no antennae or mandibles
- body consists of cephlothorax and abdomen |
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Term
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Definition
- Hemocoel with open circulatory system
- chitinous exoskeleton
- requires molting |
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