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1
Q

What is the name of insects with no wings?

A

Apterygota

2
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What is the name of insects whose wings develop externally?

A

Exopterygota

3
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What is the name of insects whose wings develop internally?

A

Endopterygota

4
Q

What is the order for silver fish?

A

Zygentoma

5
Q

What is the order for spring tails?

A

Collembola

6
Q

What is the order of mayflies?

A

Ephemoptera

7
Q

What is the order for dragonflies and damselflies?

A

Odonata

8
Q

What are the two sub orders for dragonflies and damselflies?

A

Dragonflies: Anisoptera
Damselflies: Zygoptera

9
Q

What is the order for stoneflies?

A

Plecoptera

10
Q

What is the order for earwigs and what are cerci?

A

Dermaptera

Modified as forceps

11
Q

What insects are in the order Orthoptera?

A

Grasshoppers, locusts, katydids and crickets

12
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What are the two sub orders for Orthoptera?

A

Caelifera: grasshoppers and locusts

Ensifera: Wetas and crickets

13
Q

What is the order for stick and leaf insects?

A

Phasmatodea

14
Q

What is the order for mantids?

A

Mantodea

15
Q

What is the order for cockroaches and termites?

A

Blattodea

16
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What is the order for true bugs?

A

Hemiptera

17
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What are the two sub orders of Hemiptera?

A

Heteroptera: bugs
Homoptera: cicadas, leafhoppers, aphids

18
Q

What is the order for lacewings and antlions?

A

Neuroptera

19
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What is the order for beetles?

A

Coleoptera

20
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What are the four sub orders of Coleoptera?

A

Adephaga
Polyphaga (ladybird)
Archostemata
Myxophaga

21
Q

What is the order for true flies?

A

Diptera

22
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What are the two sub orders of Diptera?

A

Nematocera and Brachycera

23
Q

What is the order of scorpion flies?

A

Mecoptera

24
Q

What’s the order for fleas?

A

Siphonaptera

25
Q

What is the order for caddisflies?

A

Trichoptera

26
Q

What is the order for moths and butterflies?

A

Lepidoptera

27
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What are the four sub orders of Lepidoptera?

A

Glossata: butterflies and moths
Micropterigoidea
Agathiphagoidea
Heterobathmiodia

28
Q

What is the order that bees ant and wasps are in?

A

Hymenoptera

29
Q

What are the two sub orders of hympenoptera?

A

Symphata: wood wasps and sawflies
Apocrita: wasps bees and ants