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CLASS INSECTA- Cockroaches (Blattaria) Flashcards

1
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Order Blattaria

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Cockroaches

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Order Phthiraptera

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Lice

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Order Hemiptera

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True bugs: bedbugs, kissing bugs, assassin bugs

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Order Coleoptera

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Beetles

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Order Siphonaptera

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Fleas

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Order Diptera

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Flies: mosquitoes, black flies, horse flies, deer flies, sand flies, tsetse flies, house flies, stable flies, horn flies, bot flies, blow flies, flesh flies, louse flies, keds, etc.

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Order Lepidoptera

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Moths and butterflies

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Order Hymenoptera

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Wasps, hornets, velvet ants, ants, bees

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class insecta

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✓ Order Blattaria
✓ Order Phthiraptera
✓ Order Hemiptera
✓ Order Coleoptera
✓ Order Siphonaptera
✓ Order Diptera
✓ Order Lepidoptera
✓ Order Hymenoptera

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class arachnida

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✓ Order Scorpionida
✓ Order Solpugida
✓ Order Acari
✓ Order Araneae

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Order Solpugida

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Solpugids, sun spiders, camel spiders, barrel spiders

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Order Acari

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Mites, ticks

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Order Araneae

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Spiders

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14
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Class Insecta

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piercing-sucking
siphoning
sponging

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  • the oldest and most primitive of insects/paurometabolous
  • omnivorous feeding behaviour
  • unspecialized chewing mouthpart
  • indication of poor sanitation or sub standard housekeeping
  • serve as intermediate host of debilitated diseases in domestic animals (fungi/protozoa)
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Cockroaches (Blattaria)

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16
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5 cockroach species

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✓ Blattidae
✓ Blatellidae
✓ Blaberidae
✓ Cryptocercidae
✓ Polyphagidae

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17
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Blattidae

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  • Supella sp. (less than 25mm)
  • Blatella sp.
  • Periplaneta sp. (35-40mm)
  • Parcoblatta sp.
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18
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  • Commonest cockroach in mosy countries
  • Light brown
  • Two longitudinal dark stripes (thorax and wings)
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“Croton bug” Blatella (Ectobia) germanica

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  • almost black about 25mm
  • wings
    Male (does not quite reach the tip of the abdomen)
    Female (vestigial)
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Blatta orientalis

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most common indicator of cockroach infestation is their egg cases called?

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oothecae (singular ootheca)

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Mouth parts of Cockroaches (Blattaria)

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-strong toothed mandibles for biting and chewing (nymphs/adults)
-maxillary/labial palps are well developed
✓ 5 maxillary
✓ 3 labial

22
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chewing lice

A

suborder mallopahga

23
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sucking lice

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suborder anoplura

24
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only anterior pair of wings are wall developed

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Dipterous insects

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Sub-orders of Veterinary Importance under order Diptera

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  1. Nematocera
  2. Brachycera
  3. Cyclorrharpha
26
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present in young fly which is use for emerging from the puparium

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ptilinal sac

27
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Families of cyclorrhpa

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Gasterophilidae, Muscidae, Calliphoridae, Oestridae, Glossinadae, Hippoboscidae

28
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These are the mosquitoes (5.7 mm in size). They are slender insects and most abundant in the tropica.

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Family Culicidae

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Mosquitoes and their feeding habits

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anopheles, calex, aedes

30
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nocturnal, active at night time or in the dark

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culex

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diurnal, active at daytime

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aedes

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crepuscular, active in the twilight time

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anopheles

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Filarial Parasites

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✓ Wuchereria bancrofti
✓ Culex spp.
✓ Aedes spp.
✓ Anopheles spp.
✓ Dirofilaria immitis

34
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are use to help control mosquitoes

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insecticides

35
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designed to be applied directly toward to control mosquito larvae

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larvicides

36
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are used in fogging and spraying to control adult mosquitoes.

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Adulticides

37
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not toxic to the mosquitoes themselves, but they make adulticides more effective

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Piperonyl butoxide

38
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Larvicide

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metroprene, bacillus

39
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Adulticides

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Pyrethrins and Pyrethroids

40
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Synergist

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Piperonyl Butoxide

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Cockroaches (Blattaria) Morphology
-Legs

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✓ 3 pair of legs are well developed
✓ with larger coxae and slender
✓ long segments
✓ femur
✓ Tibiae are heavily spined defense against predator
✓ Tarsus
- 5 segments with pair of claws
- arolium
- pulvili are present on tarsomeres 1-4
- caudal cerci have small hairs, sensitive for vibrations caused by slow frequency sound and air movements, initiate “escape response”

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Morphology of mouthparts of Cockroach (blattaria)

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  • characterized by strong toothed mandibles for biting and chewing
  • maxillary/labial palps are well developed (5 maxillary and 3 labial)
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Antennae Morphology of Cockroach (Blattaria)

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  • Long and whiplike
  • located below the middle compund eyes, consist of numerous small segments
  • 3 ocelli near the antennal socket is variable
44
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3 ocelli near the antennal socket is variable

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✓ macropterous (well developed in winged species)
✓ brachypterous (lacking in species with reduced wings
✓ apterous (lacking wings altogether)

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Cockroaches (Blattaria) Morphology Wings

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*Adults (2 pairs of wings)
✓ Front wings (Tegmina)
- Hardened and translucent
- Well-defined veins
✓ Hind wings
- Membranous and larger

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