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Up to 15 pairs of long legs are attached to the rigid body. Together with the antennae they give the centipede an appearance of being 75 to 100 mm (3 to 4 in) in length. [ 6 ] The delicate legs enable it to reach surprising speeds of up to 0.4 meters per second (1.3 ft/s) running across floors, up walls and along ceilings. [ 7 ]
The abdomen may have a striped appearance. Like many Tettigoniidae, females have a long ovipositor, which should not be mistaken for a stinger. As is characteristic of Tettigoniidae, the antennae are long and filamentous. They are in general longer than the head plus body, though the ovipositor extends to beyond the ends of the antennae.
The sole exception is the Brazilian Albardia furcata, the only living member of the subfamily Albardiinae, which has short antennae, but these are strongly clubbed (compared to myrmeleontids), and its wing venation is reticulate, typical of ascalaphids. Most owlflies are about 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) in length, not including antennae. [4]
Adult houseflies are usually 6 to 7 mm (1 ⁄ 4 to 9 ⁄ 32 in) long with a wingspan of 13 to 15 mm (1 ⁄ 2 to 19 ⁄ 32 in). The females tend to be larger winged than males, while males have relatively longer legs. Females tend to vary more in size [2] and there is geographic variation with larger individuals in higher latitudes. [3]
The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or bug sticks. They are also occasionally referred to as Devil's darning needles , although this name is shared by both dragonflies and crane flies. [ 1 ]
Its body, eyes, and long clubbed antennae are black; the wings are bright yellow, spotted with black, the forewings being partly transparent near the wingtips. The abdomen ends with a pair of hooked claspers in the male, a short ovipositor in the female. At rest, adults often perch like dragonflies with their wings outspread.
Adult Stage [3] 3/4 to 1 and 1/4 inches long; dark brown to black long abdomen; red or orange thorax and legs; small down pointed head with short 10-segmented antennae; wings have dark spot on R1 (leading edge, 2/3 of the wing from body) feed mostly on liquids like water or nectar; Bibio femoratus gets its name from its bright red femurs.
Brachycera antenna Planthopper nymph (immature). Antenna displaying an arista. In insect anatomy, the arista is a simple or variously modified apical or subapical bristle, arising from the third antennal segment. It is the evolutionary remains of antennal segments, and may sometimes show signs of segmentation. These segments are called aristameres.