Order:

Collembola

CHARACTERISTICS

"Spring Tails"

"Order: Collembola"

Sminthuridae

Poduridae

Entomobryidae

Isotomidae

Order:

Diplura

Order:

Protura

Order:

Archeognatha

CHARACTERISTICS

"Bristletails"

large contiguous compound eyes

body covered in scales

AMETABOLOUS

Order:

Archeognatha

Family:

Machilidae

Order:

Zygentoma

CHARACTERISTICS

"Silverfish"

small, compound eyes on side of the head

flattened dorsal-ventrally

body covered in grey scales/armor

AMETABOLOUS

Order:

Zygentoma

Family:

Lepismatidae

Order:

Ephemeroptera

CHARACTERISTICS

"Mayflies"

sub-imago: nonreproductive adult, wings are opaque and will only become reproductive after molt

larvae aquatic, adults terrestrial

HEMIMETABOLOUS

Order:

Ephemeroptera

Family:

Caenidae

• Wings held laterally at rest

Order:

Ephemeroptera

Family:

Baetidae

• males have turbulent eyes on top of their heads

Order:

Ephemeroptera

Family:

Heptageniidae

• hammer-head eyes

Order:

Ephemeroptera

Family:

Ephemeridae

• very large

Order:

Odonata

CHARACTERISTICS

Suborders:

Anisoptera (dragonflies) and Zygoptera (damselflies)

Large/robust vs. slender

Holds wings horizontally vs. holds wings together

Nymph gills internal vs. nymph gills external

HEMIMETABOLOUS

Order:

Odonata

Suborder:

Anisoptera

Family:

Aeshindae

• triangles are similar and eyes touch

Order:

Odonata

Suborder:

Anisoptera

Family:

Gomphidae

• triangles are similar, eyes don't touch, tail clubbed

Order:

Odonata

Suborder:

Anisoptera

Family:

Libellulidae

• body and wings variously colored, wings have foot-shaped anal loop

Order:

Odonata

Suborder:

Anisoptera

Family:

Cordullidae

• wings have foot-shaped anal loop WITHOUT toe, wings may have color

Order:

Odonata

Suborder:

Zygoptera

Family:

Calopterygidae

• wings have colouration, base of wings not as narrow (stalked)

Order:

Odonata

Suborder:

Zygoptera

Family:

Lestidae

• largest, wwo antenodalcrossveins and M3 arises nearer the arculus than the nodus

Order:

Plecoptera

CHARACTERISTICS

"Stoneflies"

folded wings, 4 membraneous wings

long, multi-segmented antennae, no cerci

HEMIMETABOLOUS

Order:

Plecoptera

Family:

Leuctridae

• rolled-wing stoneflies, rolled at rest, very small <10mm

Order:

Plecoptera

Family:

Perlodidae

• 20-40mm, brownish color, well developed anal lobe on hind wing

Order:

Plecoptera

Family:

Perlidae

• golden stoneflies, remnants of branched gills between 1st and 2nd legs

Order:

Dermaptera

CHARACTERISTICS

"Earwigs"

forcep-like cerci, (females straight inside, males are curved)

HEMIMETABOLOUS

"little earwigs"

2 tarsal segment not lobed

"striped earwigs"

longitudinal stripes on pronotum and tegmina

Order: Dermaptera

Family: Forficulidae

"European earwigs"

brownish-black, medium sized

spined males have short spine on abdominal segment

Order:

Embioptera

"webspinners"

enlarged front tarsus (silk glands) and hind femoral

females are always wingless

Order:

Orthoptera

CHARACTERISTICS

"grasshoppers and allies"

Suborders:

Caelifera (short-horned) vs. Ensifera (long-horned)

Tegima - thickened forewing to protect membraneous hindwing

tympana - auditory organs on either body or legs (singing hoppers)

HEMIMETABOLOUS

Order:

Orthoptera

Suborder:

Caelifera

Family:

Tridactylidae

• "Pygmy mole cricket", fossorial front legs

Order:

Orthoptera

Suborder:

Caelifera

Family:

Tetrigidae

• "Pygmy grasshoppers", elongated, tapered pronotum that extends beyond abdomen, camoflauged

Order:

Orthoptera

Suborder:

Caelifera

Family:

Acrididae

• "true grasshoppers", short antennae, auditory organs on 1st abdominal segment

Order:

Orthoptera

Suborder:

Ensifera

Family:

Tettigoniidae

• "Katydids", long, slender antennae and leafy camofluage

Order:

Orthoptera

Suborder:

Ensifera

Family:

Gryllacrididae

• "Cave, Camel Crickets", huge humpback, long, spined tibia

Order:

Orthoptera

Suborder:

Ensifera

Family:

Gryllidae

• "crickets", long antennae and cylindrical ovipositors

Order:

Orthoptera

Suborder:

Ensifera

Family:

Gryllotalpidae

• "mole crickets", fossorial front legs

Order:

Phasmatodea

CHARACTERISTICS

Family: Phasmatidae

"walking sticks"

long, elongated body to look like foliage

prothorax shortened

HEMIMETABOLOUS

Order:

Phasmatodea

Family:

Phasmatidae

Order:

Mantodea

CHARACTERISTICS

"preying mantises"

raptorial front legs, hammer-head eyes

predatorial

HEMIMETABOLOUS

Order:

Blattodea

CHARACTERISTICS

"cockroaches and termites"

dorsal-ventrally flattened

long, slender antennae

head covered by shield-like pronotum

HEMIMETABOLOUS

Order:

Blattodea

Family:

Blattidae

• "cockroaches", hind femora with multiple spines

Order:

Blattodea

Family:

Blattellidae

• "german cockroaches", two stripes on pronotum

Order:

Blattodea

Family:

Rhinotermitidae

• "termite", fontanelle (deep depression on head)

Order:

Psocodea

CHARACTERISTICS

"book and bark lice"

parasitic vs. nonparasitic

Suborders: Anoplura and Ischnocera

HEMIMETABOLOUS

Order:

Psocodea

Suborder:

Psocoptera

• non-parasitic, large compound eyes

Order:

Psocodea

Suborder:

Phthiraptera

• parasitic, eyes reduced or absent

"bird lice"

feeding mandibles

"sucking lice"

body, head, pubic lice

Order:

Thysanoptera

"thrips", meaning fringed wing

short, 4-9 segmented antennae

HEMIMETABOLOUS