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Monogeneric insect families (1 C, 113 P) B. Beetle families (1 C, 121 P) Blattodea families (1 C, 9 P) D. Dermaptera families (13 P) Diptera families (3 C, 2 P) E.
This article classifies the subgroups of the order Coleoptera down to the level of families, following the system in "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)", Bouchard, et al. (2011), [1] with corrections and additions from 2020, [2] with common names from bugguide.net.
Pjotr Oosterbroek, 2006 The European families of the Diptera : identification, diagnosis, biology Utrecht, KNNV ISBN 9050112455; Oldroyd, Harold (1954). Diptera 1. Introduction and key to families. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Vol 9 Part 1. Royal Entomological Society. Archived from the original on 2014-02-09.
A few insects, such as Mycetophilidae (Diptera) and the beetle families Lampyridae, Phengodidae, Elateridae and Staphylinidae are bioluminescent. The most familiar group are the fireflies , beetles of the family Lampyridae.
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 ...
Hemiptera (/ h ɛ ˈ m ɪ p t ər ə /; from Ancient Greek hemipterus 'half-winged') is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs.
Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats.
Order Neuroptera – 5,000 (Net-winged insects) Order †Protomecoptera; Order †Tarachoptera; Order †Permotrichoptera; Order Lepidoptera – 174,250 (Butterflies and moths) Order Trichoptera – 12,627 (Caddisfly) Order †Paratrichoptera; Order †Protodiptera (Permotipula and Permila) Order Diptera – 152,956 (Flies) Order ...
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