Insect Biology Practical 1

The order that is characterized by its furcula on it’s 4th abdominal segment.

Collembola

The family and order characterized by a round or hunch-backed body.

Collembola Sminthuridae

The family and order characterized by a dark, puffy body.

Collembola Poduridae

The family and order characterized by an elongated 4th abdominal segment and dorsal setae.

Collembola Entomobryidae

The family and order characterized by abdominal segments of equal length with setae all over the body.

Collembola Isotomidae

The order characterized by its conically shaped head.

Protura

The ametabolous order characterized by its 2 cerci that may be long and slender or forcep-like.

Diplura

The ametabolous order and family characterized by large contiguous compound eyes, and 2 lateral cerci with a long medial caudal filament.

Archaeognatha Machilidae

The ametabolous order and family characterized by a scaled, dorso-ventrally flattened body, and widely spread cerci with a medial caudal filament.

Zygentoma Lepismatidae

The order characterized by its vertically held membranous wings, pair of long cerci, and short adult lifespan.

Ephemeroptera

The order and family characterized by its small size for its order, its long pair of cerci, and laterally held wings where the rest of the order typically holds them vertically.

Ephemeroptera Caenidae

The order and family characterized by its reduced or absent hind wings and turbinate eyes.

Ephemeroptera Baetidae

The order and family characterized by its hammer head eyes and its hindleg with 5 tarsal segments.

Ephemeroptera Heptageniidae

The order and family characterized by its large size relative to its order.

Ephemeroptera Ephemeridae

The order and suborder characterized by their large size, horizontally held wings, and predation success.

Odonata Anisoptera

The hemimetabolous order and suborder characterized by their slender shape, wings held back and together, and predation success.

Odonata Zygoptera

The order and family characterized by their large size relative to their order, large compound eyes that touch one another, and triangles in the wings that are equidistant from the arculus.

Odonata Aeshnidae

The order and family characterized by their separated eyes, the clubbed end of their abdomen, and triangles in the wings that are equidistant from the arculus.

Odonata Gomphidae

The order and family characterized by a foot shaped an*l loop in the hind wing, wings that may have bands or coloration, colored bodies, and the triangle in the forewing being farther from the arculus than the one in the hind wing.

Odonata Libellulidae

The order and family characterized by colored wings held together vertically that have bases wider than other families.

Odonata Calopterygidae

The order and family characterized by stalked wings held together vertically, its M3 farther from is arculus than its nodus, and its smaller size.

Odonata Coenagrionidae

The order and family characterized by stalked wings held together vertically, its M3 between its arculus and nodus, and its large size.

Odonata Lestidae