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Trichoptera
caddisflies, translates to “hairy wings”
unlike moths, their wings are covered in fine hairs rather than scales and they typically hold their wings in a tent-like shape over their backs
look like small, drab, moth-like insects
no proboscis

Lepidoptera
includes butterflies and moths
tiny, colored scales cover wings
coiled proboscis

Siphonaptera
small, wingless, blood-sucking external parasites (fleas)
1.5-3.3 mm long
compressed/laterally flattened bodies
muscular hind legs and piercing mouthpart

Mecoptera
scorpionflies, typically yellow-brown or black banded body, four membranous patterned wings, reddish head, elongated beak-like face with chewing mouthparts
only males have the curved, “scorpion” tail

Nematocera
suborder of Diptera
elongated, delicate flies with fragile slender builds, long legs
one pair of wings
long multi segmented antennae

Brachycera
suborder of Diptera
short antennae, stout-bodied, compact and robust
single functional pair of wings
short reduced antennae
