insect tax lectures - university of british...
TRANSCRIPT
INSECT TAXONOMY
Pictures and Cladograms can all be found at tolweb.org
PHYLUM: Arthropoda || CLASS: Hexapoda
SUBCLASS: Collembola, the springtails
SUBCLASS: Insecta, the Insects
SUPERORDER: Pterygota, the winged insects
ORDER: Ephemeroptera, the mayflies
bcsportfisher.com
ORDER: Odonata, the dragonflies and damselflies
ORDER: Orthoptera, the grasshoppersSuborder ensifera: katydids and crickets
Suborder caelifera: grasshoppers
ORDER: Blattodea, the roaches (Blattaria)
www.wikipedia.org “American cockroach”
ORDER: Isoptera, the termites
ORDER: Dermaptera, the earwigs
en.wikipedia.org “Earwig”
ORDER: Hemiptera, the bugs
“Homoptera”
SUBORDER: Sternorrhynchawhiteflies, aldegids, aphids, and scale insects
SUBORDER:
plant- leaf- frog-hoppers, spittlebugs, cicadas
SUBORDER: Heteroptera, the true bugs
en.wikipedia.org “Cimicidae”
en.wikipedia.org “Reduviidae”
water striders, stink bugs, boatmen, assassin bugs, leaf-footed bugs, bed bugs
ORDER: Coleoptera, the beetles
Family: Buprestidae, the flat-head borers
Family: Cerambycidae, the sawyer beetles
Family: Curculionidae, the weevils
GRUBS!!!
ORDER: Diptera, the true flies
MAGGOTS!!!!
ORDER: Lepidoptera, the moths and butterflies“butterflies”
“moths”
Family: ,
Family: Geometridae, the inch-worms/loopers
Family: ,
Family: Pyralidae, the snout moths
Family: Tortricidae, the leafroller moths
ORDER: Hymenoptera, the bees, ants, wasps
Family: Siricidae, horntails
Family:
Family:
