TYPES OF INSECT’S LEGS CURSORIAL Wakling, running Ground beetles, cockroach
FOSSORIAL Front leg, digging soil Mole cricket
RAPTATORIAL Fore leg, adapted for catching prey Praying mantis
SALTATORIAL Hind leg, jumping Enlarge femur grasshoppers
NATATORIAL For swimmng With hairs Water beetles
POLLEN COLLECTING tibia adaptation (corbicula) Pollen basket
KAKI BERPELEKAP (pg 26) Tarsus of fore leg With structure that can grasp To hold on female beetle during mating
INSECTS LARVAE (refer practical book page 37) CAMPODEIFORM elongated, flattened, active Neuroptera
CARABIFORM (pg 29) flattened, well-developed legs with no filaments on the end of the abdomen. Carabidae (beetle)
SCARABAEIFORM sluggish, cylindrical, c-shaped well-developed head and thoracic legs Scarabaeidae (beetle)
ELATERIFORM Wireworm elongate, cylindrical, with a hard exoskeleton and tiny legs Elateridae (click beetle)
ERUCIFORM Catterpillar-like Cylindrical, obvious head, short antennae Butterflies and moths
PLATYFORM Very flattened larva Leg hidden or none Diptera (flies), Lepidoptera, Coleoptera (beetle)
VERMIFORM Maggot (berengga) legless, head undevelop Diptera (flies)
INSECTS PUPAE (PG 38) EXARATE (EKSARAT) the appendages, legs etc., are free and capable of movement Most orders except butterflies (lepidoptera) & flies (Diptera)
OBTECT (OBTEK) the legs and other appendages are closely appressed to the rest of the body not capable of free movement butterflies
COARCTATE (KOARKTAT) Enclosed within the last larval skin acts as a cocoon protects the pupa flies (Diptera, of the sub-order Cyclorrhapha.).