2- Common insect orders

Question 1

• mandibular mouthparts
• large, multifaceted compound eyes
• enlarged thorax, slender abdomen

Answer 1

odonata

Question 2

odonata suborder:
- damselflies
- widely separated eyes
- equal shaped wings w narrow bases

Answer 2

zygoptera

Question 3

odonata suborder:
- dragonflies
- slightly separated eyes
- hind wings wider at base than forewings

Answer 3

epiprocata

Question 4

• grasshoppers, locusts, katydids, crickets
• long cylindrical body
• downward facing mouthparts
• enlarged hind legs for jumping
• large thorax w shield-like pronotum
• forewings from narrow, leathery tegmina; hindwings broad w cross veins

Answer 4

orthoptera

Question 5

• stick insects
• mandibulate, forward-facing mouthparts
• many species lack wings (some reduced in Females)

Answer 5

phasmatodea

Question 6

• mantises
• males smaller than F
• triangular mobile head w narrow antennae
• separated eyes, mandible mouthparts
• forewings form leathery tegmina
• raptorial forelegs

Answer 6

mantodea

Question 7

cockroaches and termites

Answer 7

blattodea

Question 8

blattodea species
- dorsoventrally flattened
- shield-like prothorax may cover head
- downward mouthparts
- forewings form leathery tegmina that cover large hindwings

Answer 8

cockroaches

Question 9

blattodea species
- mandibulate mouthparts
- compound eyes often reduced
- winged forms have similar fore/hindwings ofter w reduced venation

Answer 9

termites

Question 10

• true bugs
• piercing mouthparts directed backwards at rest
• forewings may form hemelytra
• wing reduction/absence common

Answer 10

hemiptera

Question 11

• beetles
• heavily armored
• legs adhesive w claws
• forewings form elytra covering membranous hindwings

Answer 11

coleoptera

Question 12

• true flies
• wings restricted to mesothorax
• hindwings: halteres
• varied mouthparts

Answer 12

diptera

Question 13

• butterflies, moths
• long coiled proboscis
• multi-segmented, comb-like antennae
• wings 2x layers of scales

Answer 13

lepidoptera

Question 14

• ants, bees, wasps, sawflies, wood wasps
• hypognathous/prognathous head
• forward recurved antennae
• reduced venation in wings
• 2 abdominal segments

Answer 14

hymenoptera

Question 15

when hymenoptera occasionally have 3 abdominal segments they form a petiole or ______

Answer 15

apocrita