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Classification
Scientific Classification
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
5 Classes of Arthropods
Orthoptera
Hemiptera
Homoptera
Coleoptera
Lepidoptera
Diptera
Hymenoptera
Odonata
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Neuroptera
Thysanura
Isoptera
Siphonaptera
Phthiraptera
Thysanoptera
Dermaptera
Blattodea
Orthoptera
Includes:
Indian House Crickets
Field Cricket
Short-horned Grasshoppers
Katydid (Long-horned Grasshoppers)
Mouthparts:
Chewing
Metamorphosis:
Incomplete Metamorphosis
Damage: Chewing leaves, Crop grains,
Fun Facts:
Many produce sound through stridulating.
Over 20,000 species worldwide.
Homoptera
Includes:
Cicadas
Aphids
Armored scales
Cottony cushion scale
Cochineal scale
Leafhoppers
Treehoppers
Whiteflies
Mouthparts:
Sucking
Metamorphosis:
Generally incomplete
Fun Facts:
Cochineal scales are used in
makeup products for the red
color.
Coleopter
a Beetles and Weevils
Includes:
Blister beetle
Boll weevil
Collops beetle
Darkling beetle (Pinacate or
Eleodes beetle)
Dermestid beetle
Dung beetle
Fig beetle
Flea beetle
Lady beetle (Ladybird beetle/
Ladybug)
Long-horned beetle (roundheaded wood borer)
Palo Verde root borer
Metallic wood borer (flat-headed
borer)
White grub (Scarab beetle larva)
10 Striped June beetle
Mouthparts:
Chewing, Weevil- Piercing Sucking
Metamorphosis:
Complete Metamophosis
Fun Facts:
Coleoptera means sheath wing.
Lepidoptera
Includes: Butterflies and Moths
Bagworm
Two-tailed Swallowtail
Budworm/Bollworm
Pink Bollworm
Grape-leaf Skeletonizer
Tomato Hornworm
Sphinx Moth
Monarch
Checkered skipper
Mouthparts: Chewing Caterpillars,
Siphoning adult.
Metamorphosis:
Complete Metamorphosis
Fun Facts: The largest butterfly is the
Birdwings that have 11in wingspans.
Diptera
Includes: Flies, Midges,
Mosquito
House fly
Crane fly
Syrphid or hover fly
Bee fly
Tachinid fly
Bot fly
Deer fly
Mosquito
Gall Midge
Mouthparts:
Sponging, Piercing suckingMosquito
Metamorphosis:
Complete Metamophosis
Facts: Are common vectors of
disease.
Hymenoptera
Includes: Bees, Wasps, Ants
Horntail wasp
Sawfly
Gall wasps
Honey bee
Leaf-cutter bee
Carpenter bee
Bumble bee
Harvester ant
Leaf-cutter ant
Fire ant
Velvet Ant (mutillid)
Paper wasp
Ichneumon wasp
Thread-waisted wasp
Tarantula hawk (spider wasp)
Mouthparts:
Chewing-Lapping
Metamorphosis:
Complete Metamophosis
Facts: Contain all the social
insects except termites.
Odonata
Includes: Dragonfly,
Damselfly
Mouthparts:
Chewing-Lapping
Metamorphosis:
Complete
Metamorphosis
Facts:
Live in the water the first
year of their lives.
After leaving the water
they only live a month.
Have been around 300
million years.
Neuroptera
Includes:
Green Lacewing
Antlion
Mouthparts:
Metamorphosis:
Complete Metamorphosis
Facts:
Both are beneficial insects.
Antlions creat a sand pit to
capture unsuspecting prey.
Includes:
Silverfish
Firebrat
Springtail
Mouthparts: Chewing
Metamorphosis:
Incomplete Metamorphosis
Facts:
Like to lay their eggs in books and wall paper
because of the paper and glue.
Live 3-5 years
Most primitive of all insects.
Thysanura
Isoptera
Includes:
Dry-wood termite
Subterranean termite
Includes:
Cat and dog flea
Mouthparts:
Piercing Sucking
Metamorphosis:
Complete Metamorphosis
Facts:
Fleas can live 100 days without
feeding.
Can jump 100 times their own length.
Been around more than 100 million
years.
Females can consume more than 15
times their body weight daily.
Siphonaptera
Includes: Lice
Chewing Louse
Sucking Louse
Mouthparts:
Chewing and Piercing-Sucking
Metamorphosis:
Incomplete Metamorphosis
Facts:
Sucking lice feed continuously on blood
Chewing lice feed on hair and feathers of animals and
humans.
Wingless. Do not fly or jump
Phthiraptera
Formally Anoplura and Mallophaga
Includes: Cockroaches
American Cockroach
Brown-banded cockroach
Desert Cockroach
Turkish Cockroach
German Cockroach
Mouthparts: Chewing Mouthparts
Metamorphosis:
Complete Metamorphosis
Facts:
Typically Live outside
Walk inside. DO NOT live in the water pipes.
Blattodea
Includes: Earwigs
Earwig
Mouthparts: Chewing Mouthparts
Metamorphosis:
Incomplete Metamorphosis
Facts:
Like humid, dark areas.
Release a foul smelling liquid up to 4in away.
Oldest known fossil dates back to Jurassic period.
Dermaptera
Includes: Thrip
Thrip
Metamorphosis:
Complete Metamorphosis
Facts:
Common Pests on flowers, citrus and onions.
Thysanoptera
Ticket Out
list 1 insect order
2-5 insects in that order
mouthparts in that order
lifecycles in that order