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Extinct insect orders (25 P) L. Insect orders by location (12 C) Pages in category "Insect orders" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
Orthoptera (from Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós) 'straight' and πτερά (pterá) 'wings') is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā.
Insects were among the earliest terrestrial herbivores and acted as major selection agents on plants. [37] Plants evolved chemical defenses against this herbivory and the insects, in turn, evolved mechanisms to deal with plant toxins. Many insects make use of these toxins to protect themselves from their predators.
Order Zoraptera – 28 (Angel insects) Order †Archelytroidea; Order †Protelytroptera; Order Dermaptera – 1,816 (Earwigs) Order Plecoptera – 2,274 (Stoneflies) Order †Caloblattinidea; Order †Alienoptera; Order Mantodea – 2,200 (Mantises) Order Blattodea – 3,684–4,000 (Cockroaches and termites) Order Grylloblattodea – 34 (ice ...
Of all the insect orders, Orthoptera displays the greatest variety of features found in the heads of insects, including the sutures and sclerites. [6] Here, the vertex, or the apex (dorsal region), is situated between the compound eyes of insects with hypognathous and opisthognathous heads.
The insect order Lepidoptera consists of moths and butterflies (43 superfamilies). [1] Most moths are night-flying, while the butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea ) are the mainly day-flying. Within Lepidoptera as a whole, the groups listed below before Glossata contain a few basal families accounting for less than 200 species; the bulk of ...
Orders Scarabaeus hercules (now Dynastes hercules) was the first species in Linnaeus' class "Insecta". Linnaeus divided the class Insecta into seven orders, based chiefly on the form of the wings. He also provided a key to the orders: 4 wings; pairs dissimilar; forewings fully hardened: Coleoptera; forewings partly hardened: Hemiptera; pairs ...
Diptera is one of the major insect orders and of considerable ecological and human importance. Flies are major pollinators, second only to the bees and their Hymenopteran relatives. Flies may have been among the evolutionarily earliest pollinators responsible for early plant pollination.