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DICHOTOMOUS KEYS
• Based on dichotomies, you must choose one of two options
• By repeating this step, you can narrow down to more and more specific classifications
• Answers often involve whether a diagnostic trait is present
• Example: Does this insect have wings?
ODONATA
• Does it have a stout body and hold its wings flat at rest?
• Is Body Longer than Wingspan?
• Do its eyes touch at top of head?
Odonata
AnisopteraDragonfly
GomphidaeClubtails
AeshnidaeDarners
LibellulidaeSkimmers
ZygopteraDamselfly
LestidaeSpreadwings
CoenagrionidaeNarrow Winged
HOW THE KEY WOULD LOOK
1. It has wings 4
It doesn’t have wings 2
2. It has six legs 3
It doesn’t have six legs it’s not an insect
3. Its ancestors have wings 4
It never had wings apterygota
4. It only lives for a day ephemeroptera
It lives for many days 5
5. It has bulging eyes Zygoptera
Its eyes do not bulge Anisoptera
ORDER BLATTODEA: ROACHES
• What makes a cockroach?
• Cockroaches Are not the same as beetles!!!
• Distinguished by ‘hood’. Extension of pronotum covering head.
• ‘Dorso-ventrally’ flattened…
• Usually brown drab color
• Cylindrical egg sack, attached to female’s posterior
• Have functional wings, but rarely fly
• Two short cerci
• Long thin antennae
EW?• Only a few are pests• Most cockroachs feed on decaying
wood, fruit, and other plant matter• Cockroaches are very important
decomposers• Take plant matter and make it into
food for other critters
• However, some cockroaches (American roach, Oriental roach especially) are icky
• Tend to invade homes• Do NOT spread disease…• But eat and spoil foodstuffs• Also, these species smell bad
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