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Insects Vocab Quiz
Insect Orders
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Biology
9th Grade
09/27/2009

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Term
Insecta
Definition

cut into (from the segmented bodies.).

three body parts (head, thorax, and abdomen.). three pairs of legs on thorax, generally one or two pairs of wings; gas exchange through trachea.

(10 mil. species.).

Latin- insectus.

Term
Orthoptera
Definition

straight wing.

includes grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids.

Term
Odonata
Definition

characterized by tooth.

includes damselfly, dragon flies.

Term
Hemiptera
Definition

half winged.

includes true bugs.

Term
Homoptera
Definition

same wing.

includes cicada, leaf hopper, aphid, plant hoppers, and scale insects.

Term
Coleoptera
Definition

sheath winged.

includes beetles.

Term
Lepidoptera
Definition

scaled wing.

includes moths, butterflies, skippers.

Term
Diptera
Definition

two wing.

includes flies.

Term
Hymenoptera
Definition

winged membrane.

icludes ants, bees, wasps, sawflies.

Term
Nebraska Conehead
Definition
orthoptera.
Term
Gladiator Katydid
Definition
orthoptera.
Term
Field Cricket
Definition
orthoptera.
Term
Red-legged Locust
Definition
orthoptera.
Term
Honey Bee
Definition
hymenoptera.
Term
Bumble Bee
Definition
hymenoptera.
Term
Carpenter Ant
Definition
hymenoptera.
Term
Cicada Killer
Definition
hymenoptera.
Term
Paper Nest Wasp
Definition
hymenoptera.
Term
Green Darner
Definition
odonata.
Term
Blue-Fronted Dancer
Definition
odonata.
Term
Familiar Bluet
Definition
odonata.
Term
Great Spreadwing
Definition
odonata.
Term
Fiery Skipper
Definition
lepidoptera.
Term
Monarch
Definition
lepidoptera.
Term
Clouded Sulfur
Definition
lepidoptera.
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