ENTO 330 Quiz: INSECT BIOLOGY LABORATORY 1.docx
4 May 2015
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When present, 4 long and narrow wings with few or no veins and fringed with long hairs. Female long slender ovipositor (lay eggs into crevices in bark). Similar to mantidflies except forelegs not raptorial and located on posterior end of prothorax. Not present in eastern n. a but common in the west. with. 2 pairs of membranous wings of similar size, held roof-like over body. Wing venation complex but without forked branching near wing margin (compare with neuroptera below). Similar to dobsonflies but smaller. pectinate (comblike) or serrate (sawlike). Large mandibles, lateral tactile most abdominal segments and tufts of gills on side of abdomen (stonefly nymphs had tuft of gills segments and long cerci). filaments on ventro-lateral on thoracic. Four membranous wings, with distinctive wing patterns with extra forked branches at the bottom edge of the wings. Front and hind wings similar in shape and venation and held rooflike over body.
