ENTM 2001 : Ent Lab Exam
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Chitinous exoskeleton, segmented appendages, segmented body subphylm- crustacean, atelocerata, arachnida order. Class entognatha: protura= entognathous, no eyes, wingless, no antennae, no cerci. Don"t feed so vestigial mouthparts: odonata= dragonflies and damselflies. Labial mask hooks: suborder zygoptera= damselflies, family calopterygidae= broadwinged, family coenagrionidae= narrowwinged, delicate. Neoptera: family lestidae= paleoptera, suborder anisoptera= dragonflies, family aeshnidae= large, blue/green, family libelluidae= common. Dark spots on wing: gomphidae= swollen abdominal segments, orthoptera= grasshoppers, katydids, crickets, molecrickets. Saltatorial: family acrididae= short horned grasshoppers, family tetrigidae= pigmy grasshoppers. Pronotum extends: family tettigoniidae= long horned grasshoppers and katydids, family gryllidae= crickets, family gryllacrididae= humpbacked, family gryllotalpidae= mole cricket. Setaceous antennae: family blattidae= oriental and american (golden), smoky brown (dark, family blatellidae= german (small), brown banded (small and banded, mantodea= hemimetabolous. Filliform antennae, compound eyes, hypognathous, raptorial forelegs, cerci: family mantidae= all, phasmotodea= walking stick. Prothorax is much shorter than meso or meta.
