Insect Families 4

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Insect Families 4

• Neuroptera, Mecoptera, Diptera

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Q1

• What are the TWO differences between sO Adephaga
  and sO Polyphaga?

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Q2

• How would I tell the difference between these two
  families?

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Q3

• NAME the families and tell me how you would
  distinguish between them

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Q4 What families are these?
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Q5 Which is in Lampyridae? Why?
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Q6 Name the Family.
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Neuroptera

• 6 Familes
• Ascalaphidae
• Chrysopidae
• Hemerobiidae
• Myrmeleontidae
• Mantispidae
• Corydalidae

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F Ascalaphidae

• Owlflies
• Dragonfly-esque insects
• Big, bulging eyes
• Knobbed antennae
• Hold abdomen vertically at rest
• Do not confuse with Odonata (antennae, body, wing
  position) or Mermeleontidae (wing coloration,
  eyes, antennae length)
• Larvae and adults are predaceous larvae and
  pupae often found in leaf litter

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F Chrysopidae

• Green Lacewings
• Soft, green body
• copper-colored eyes
• Long filiform antennae
• Very lacy fragile-looking wings
• Often attracted to porchlights
• Larvae are predators, often have debris stuck to
  their backs
• Dont confuse with Hemerobiidae (color, wing
  venation)

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F Hemerobiidae

• Brown Lacewings
• Essentially the same as green lacewings, except
  for color
• Minor wing vein differences

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F Mantispidae

• Mantis Fly
• Raptorial front legs on elongate prothorax.
• Membranous wings with venation typical of the
  Neuroptera.
• Some adults are colored like green lacewings
  while others look wasp-y
• Larvae undergo hypermetamorphosis, being
  compodeiform in the first instar and
  scarabaeiform in later instars.
• Adults are general predators. Most are collected
  from sweeping vegetation in bushy and weedy
  fields.

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F Myrmeleontidae

• Antlions
• Clavate antennae, about as long as the combined
  length of the head and thorax.
• 4 similarly-shaped wings, usually with many
  darkened cells
• Larvae are predators that sit and wait in funnels
  of sand
• Do not confuse with Odonata or with Ascalaphidae

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F Corydalidae

• Adults large (gt 25 mm)
• Soft-bodied
• fold their wings flat on the back
• 3 ocelli.
• Antennae filiform, serrate, or pectinate.
• Males have big, but ineffective mandibles-
  females can bite
• Usually collected near water
• Larvae called Hellgramites, get to be REALLY big-
  can find under rocks in clear streams

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O Mecoptera

• Only one family Panorpidae
• These are like the ones in the collection- male
  genitalia scorpion-like, banded wings
• You could potentially collect Bittacidae, called
  hanging flies. (You dont need to know this,
  just FYI)

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Diptera!

• 11 Families in 2 suborders
• Nematocera (Thread-like antennae)
• Culicidae
• Chironomidae
• Tipulidae
• Brachycera (Short antennae)
• - Asilidae
• - Bombylidae
• Callophoridae
• Muscidae
• Sarcophagidae
• Syrphidae
• Tabanidae
• Tachinidae

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F Culicidae

• Mosquitos
• Wings with scales on veins and along the margins.
  
• Proboscis long.
• Antennae with 6 or more segments, plumose on
  males and short-haired on females.
• Larvae are aquatic
• Males and females feed on nectar and plant
  juices. Only females feed on blood.
• Females vector pathogens of major diseases

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F Chironomidae

• Non-biting Midges
• Look almost exactly like mosquitos, MINUS the
  long proboscis
• Typically have black markings on thorax and
  abdomen
• Adults do not feed, larvae are aquatic.

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F Tipulidae

• Crane Flies
• Mosquitolike insects with very long legs.
• Antennae with 6 or more segments
• Mesonotum with V-shaped suture.
• Ocelli absent.
• Larvae aquatic
• Legs of adults break off VERY easily.

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F Asilidae

• Robberflies
• Medium- to large-sized flies
• some species stout and hairy, others slender and
  lacking hair.
• Face usually "bearded"
• 3 ocelli in depression between the compound eyes.
  
• Antennae 3-segmented third segment elongate and
  often with terminal style.
• Predaceous on other insects- common name

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F Bombylidae

• Bee flies
• Medium- to large-size
• usually stout and hairy, often resembling bees.
• Antennae 3-segmented
• Many species with a long and slender proboscis.
• Wings distinctive often patterned or spotted
  vein M1 ending behind wing tip
• As common name would suggest, do not confuse with
  bees!

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F Callophoridae

• Blow Flies
• Antennae 3-segmented, aristate
• Frontal suture present.
• Calypters well developed.
• Body metallic blue, green, or black.
• Arista plumose for entire length.
• Two notopleural bristles.

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F Muscidae

• House Fly
• Antennae 3-segmented, aristate
• Frontal suture present.
• Calypters well developed.
• Arista usually plumose for the entire length.
• Hypopleuron usually without bristles generally
  more than one sternopleural bristle.
• Anal vein does not reach wing margin

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F Sarcophagidae

• Flesh Flies
• Antennae 3-segmented, aristate
• Frontal suture present.
• Calypters well developed.
• black and gray longitudinal stripes on the thorax
  and checkering on the abdomen.
• Arista commonly plumose on basal half bare in a
  few species.
• Four notopleural bristles (short, long, short,
  long, from front to rear).
• Hindmost posthumeral bristle located even with or
  toward midline from presutural bristle.

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F Syrphidae

• Hover flies
• Medium- to large-size flies
• often resemble bees and wasps.
• Antennae 3-segmented, aristate
• No frontal suture.
• Distinctive wing venation spurious vein present
  between R and M

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F Tabanidae

• Horse flies
• Large, stout body with wings held in single plane
  over abdomen.
• Antennae 3 segmented with 3rd segment elongate
  and annulated prominent toothlike basal process
  present on some species.
• Wings with large calypters
• Larvae of most species are aquatic and
  predaceous.
• The bloodsucking females are often serious pests
  on livestock and people males feed on pollen and
  nectar.
• Tabanids vector the bacteria that cause anthrax
  and tularemia.

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F Tachinidae

• Antennae 3-segmented, aristate
• Frontal suture present.
• Calypters well developed.
• Resembling house flies, but are usually larger,
  hairier, and more robust.
• Arista usually bare, but plumose in some species.
  
• Bristles present on both the hypopleuron and
  pteropleuron.