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Adult lepidopterans have four wings – a forewing and a hindwing on both the left and the right side of the thorax – and, like all insects, three pairs of legs. [11] The morphological characteristics which distinguish the order Lepidoptera from other insect orders are: [10]: 246
Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects is a series of books produced by the Royal Entomological Society (RES). The aim of the Handbooks is to provide illustrated identification keys to the insects of Britain, together with concise morphological, biological and distributional information.
pdf download manual (two parts Main text and figures index) Hongfu, Zhu, 1949 How to know the immature insects; an illustrated key for identifying the orders and families of many of the immature insects with suggestions for collecting, rearing and studying them, by H. F. Chu. Pictured key nature series Dubuque, Iowa, W. C. Brown Co. Full text ...
The word insect comes from the Latin word insectum from in, "cut up", [1] as insects appear to be cut into three parts. The Latin word was introduced by Pliny the Elder who calqued the Ancient Greek word ἔντομον éntomon "insect" (as in entomology ) from ἔντομος éntomos "cut in pieces"; [ 2 ] this was Aristotle 's term for this ...
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 larvae of Diptera feed on a diverse array of nutrients ; often these are different from those of adults, for instance the larvae of Syrphidae in which family the adults are flower-feeding are saprotrophs, eating decaying plant or animal matter, or insectivores, eating aphids, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects.
Many types of polymorphism can be seen in the insect order Lepidoptera. Polymorphism is the appearance of forms or "morphs" differing in color and number of attributes within a single species. Polymorphism is the appearance of forms or "morphs" differing in color and number of attributes within a single species.