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Title: Major Orders of Insects


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Major Orders of Insects
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Coleoptera
  • Sheath winged
  • 2 pairs of wings (front pair covers transparent
    back pair)
  • Heavy armored exoskeleton
  • Biting and chewing mouth parts

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Diptera Two-winged
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Diptera Two-winged
  • Flies mosquitoes
  • Transparent front wings, hind wings reduced and
    help with balance
  • Heavy armored exoskeleton
  • Sucking, piercing, and lapping mouth parts

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Hymenoptera Membrane winged
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Hymenoptera Membrane winged
  • Ants, bees, wasps
  • 2 pairs of transparent wings
  • Mobile head and well developed eyes
  • Chewing and sucking mouth parts

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LepidopteraScale winged
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LepidopteraScale winged
  • Butterflies moths
  • 2 pairs of broad, scaly wings
  • Hairy bodies
  • Tubelike, sucking mouthparts

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Hemiptera Half-winged
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Hemiptera Half-winged
  • Giant water bugs, bed bugs
  • 2 pairs of wings or wingless
  • Piercing, sucking mouthparts
  • Scutellum
  • True bugs

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OrthopteraStraight Winged
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OrthopteraStraight Winged
  • Grasshoppers, crickets
  • 2 pairs of wings or wingless
  • Biting and chewing mouthparts in adults

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OdonataToothed
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OdonataToothed
  • Dragonflies Damselfies
  • 2 pairs of transparent wings
  • Chewing mouthparts

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IsopteraEqual winged
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IsopteraEqual winged
  • Termites
  • 2 pairs of wings some stages are wingless
  • Chewing mouthparts
  • Social insects w/division of labor

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SiphonapteraTube-wingless
  • Fleas
  • Small wingless
  • Flattened body
  • Piercing and sucking mouthparts
  • Jumping legs

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Ephemeroptera
  • Mayflies
  • Primitive insects less numerous today due to
    outcompeting
  • Nymphs are aquatic and adults are aerial
  • Serve as water quality indicators

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Homopetera Same winged
  • Cicadas, aphids, scales, plant-leaf treehoppers
    (or hoppers), spittlebugs
  • Plant eaters with piercing and sucking mouthparts

Have 2 pairs of membraneous uniform wings or may
lack wings entirely
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Dermaptera skin winged
  • Earwigs
  • Chewing mouthparts
  • Minor pest in homes and flowers
  • Narrow toughened body
  • Cerci in back hardened like forceps

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Thysanura thysanosfringe uratail
  • Bristletails and silverfish
  • Chewing mouthparts no wings
  • Commonly found
  • in dorms, apartments and
  • basements of buildings,
  • especially near heating
  • systems (firebrats) or
  • areas of higher humidity
  • like bathrooms (silverfish).
  • Others outdoors
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