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Protura
- Very small
- White
- No cerci
- No antennae (forelegs are projected forward as antenna)
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Collembola
- [springtails]
- very small
- No cerci
- Have a collophore and furcula
- short antennae
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Diplura
- very small
- no eyes
- cerci
- look similar to a silverfish
- long antennae (have muscles)
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Microcoryphia
- [bristletails]
- large compound eyes-contiguous
- arched thorax
- monochodylic mandible
- 3 tails
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Thysanura
- [silverfish]
- small compound eyes-not contiguous
- depressed thorax
- covered in scales
- 3 tails
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Ephemeroptera Adults
- [Mayflies]
- ADULTS:
- 4 membraneous wings, triangular
- 2-3 long tails
- vestigial mouthparts
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Ephemeroptera larva
- [mayflies]
- LARVA:
- aquatic
- 2-3 tailsonly
- forewingpads fully exposed from abovepaired serial platelike gills on abdomen
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Odonata adults
- [dragonflies, damselflies]
- 4 membranous wings-elongated
- no tails
- large eyes
- short antennae
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Odonata larva
- [dragonflies, damselflies]
- aquatic
- 4 wingpads parallel to each other
- prehensile labium
- no tails
- no gills
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Orthopteroid
- Orthoptera
- Phasmatodea
- Grylloblattodea
- Mantophasmatodea
- Dermaptera
- Plecoptera
- Embiidina
- Aoraptera
- Isoptera
- Mantodea
- Blattodea
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Orthoptera
- [grasshoppers, crickets, katydids]
- jumping hindlegs
- 2-4 seg. tarsi
- wings and wingless
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Phasmatodea
- [wallking sticks, leaf insects]
- sticklike or leafelike apperance
- 5 seg. tarsi
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 Grylloblattodea
- [Rock crawlers]
- secondarily wingless
- cerci and antennae
- 5 seg. tarsi
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Mantophasmatodea
- [heel walkers]
- triangulate face
- no raptorial forelegs
- prolonged prothorax
- secondarily wingless
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Dermaptera
- [earwigs]
- forceps like cerci
- 4 wings
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Plecoptera adults
- [stoneflies]
- depressed body
- 4 wings flat at rest
- 2 tails
- 3 seg. tarsi
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Plecoptera larva
- [stoneflies]
- aquatic
- long seg. antennae
- 2 tails
- hindwingpads fully exposed
- no gills
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Embiidina
- [webspinners]
- 3 seg. tarsi
- 4 wings
- foretarsal seg. enlarged (spinneret)
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Zoraptera
- 1 seg. short cerci with terminal bristle
- 9 seg. antennae
- 2 seg. tarsi
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Isoptera
- [termites]
- long antennae
- 4 seg tarsi
- wings and wingless
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Mantodea
- [mantids]
- body, legs, and prothorax elongated
- raptorial forelegs
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Blattodea
- [cockroaches]
- depressed body
- 4 wings or wingless
- 5 seg tarsi
- head concealed from above
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Hemipteroid
- Hemiptera
- Thysanoptera
- psocoptera
- phthiraptera
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Hemiptera
- [bugs, cicadas, hoppers, whiteflies]
- some aquatic
- fluid feeding
- 2-4 wings or wingless
- Hemielytra wings (cross each other at rest)
- rooflike wings (at rest)
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Thysanoptera
- [Thrips]
- 4 wings or wingless
- developed wings narrow and rodlike and fringed with long hairs
- conelike beak posterior on head
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Psocoptera
- [booklice, barklice]
- long filamentous antennae
- 4 wings or wingless
- front of head with conspicuously enlarged clypeus (frontal bulge)
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Phthiraptera
- [lice]
- ectoparasite
- wingless
- depressed body
- tarsal claws
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coleoptera adults
- [beetles]
- 4 wings
- forewings like elytra-meeting midline of body
- chewing mp
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coleoptera larva
- [beetles]
- well developed head
- thoracic legs
- no prolegs
- campodeiform
- platyform
- elateriform
- vermiform
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Neuroptera adults
- [alderflies, fishflies, lacewings, antlions]
- 4 membraneous wings-rooflike at rest
- chewing mp
- 5 seg tarsi
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Neuroptera larva
- some aquatic
- capodeiform
- chewing mp
- aquatic forms: sucking mp, single terminal tail, or 2 prolegs with 2 hooks
- terrestrial forms: mandibles for sucking jaw or labrum absent
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Hymenopteroid
hymenoptera
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Hymanoptera adults
- [sawflies, wasps, ants, bees]
- 4 wings
- forewings always larger than hindwings
- well developed ovipositer
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Hymenoptera larva
some eruciform
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Panorpoid
- trichoptera
- Lepidoptera
- siphonaptera
- mecoptera
- strepsiptera
- diptera
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trichoptera adults
- [caddisflies]
- 4 wings-clothed with hairs, help rooflike at rest
- filamentous antennae, very long
- chewing mp
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Trichoptera Larva
- [caddislies]
- abdomen ending in a pair of anal prolegs-each with a single claw
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Lepidoptera adults
- [butterflies, moths]
- 4 large scaley wings
- plumose, club, spindle antennae
- tubelike mp
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Lepidoptera larva
- eruciform with 2-5 prolegs
- prolegs with crochets
- stemmata
- labium with spinneret
- few aquatic
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Mecoptera adults
- [scorpionflies]
- elongated head
- 4 subequal wings
- abdomen forms scorpionlike tail in males
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Mecoptera larva
- eruciform with 6-8 prolegs
- scarabaeiform with no prolegs, no tarsal claws
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Strepsiptera adult
- [twisted-wing parasite]
- males-forewings reduced to pegs, fanlike hindwings and bulging eyes and antennae
- females-parasitic, no eyes, antennae, or legs
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strepsiptera larva
- campodeiform with 3 tarsal claws
- later parasitic veriform fused head and thorax.
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Diptera adults
- [flies, mosquitoes]
- forewings membraneous
- hindwings halteres
- sponging, lapping, sucking mp
- tiny antennae
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diptera larva
- internal parasites
- aquatic
- prolegs present
- head-present, retracted, or lacking
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