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By: Martavious Jennings
Insect Taxonomic By: Martavious Jennings
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Insect orders Ephemeroptera Odonata Blattaria Isoptera Dermatptera
Orthoptera Phasmida Hemiptera Coleoptera Lepidoptera Diptera Siphonoptera Hymenoptera Mantodea Plecoptera
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Ephemeroptera The name Ephemeroptera is derived from the Greek "ephemera" meaning short-lived, and "ptera" meaning wings.
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Odonata Odonata. Dragonflies and Damselflies. The name Odonata, derived from the Greek "odonto-", meaning tooth, refers to the strong teeth found on the mandibles.
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Blattaria Cockroaches are insects of the order Blattodea, sometimes also called Blattaria, of which about 30 species out of 4,600 total are associated with human habitats. About four species are well known as pests.
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Isoptera Isoptera. Termites are usually small or medium sized, whitish or colorless insects, with short antennae. They have strong biting mouthparts with which to chew seeds, wood or leaves. Apart from the Hymenoptera (bees, ants and wasps), termites are the only insects that live in social groups.
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Dermatptera Dermaptera, widely distributed in warm, moist areas, characterized by a slender, elongated, flattened body with pincer like appendages at the tail end of the abdomen.
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Orthoptera Orthoptera is an order of insects with paurometabolous or incomplete metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers, crickets, cave crickets, Jerusalem crickets, katydids, weta, lubber, Acrida, and locusts.
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Phasmida Orthoptera is an order of insects with paurometabolous or incomplete metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers, crickets, cave crickets, Jerusalem crickets, katydids, weta, lubber, Acrida, and locusts.
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Hemiptera Hemiptera is an order of insects most often known as the true bugs, comprising around 50,000–80,000 species of cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, shield bugs, and others.
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Coleoptera The Coleoptera order of insects is commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek κολεός, koleos, meaning "sheath"; and πτερόν, pteron, meaning "wing", thus "sheathed wing", because most beetles have two pairs of wings.
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Lepidoptera Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies. It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world.
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Diptera True flies are insects of the order Diptera. Their most obvious distinction from other orders of insects is that a typical fly possesses a pair of flight wings on the mesothorax and a pair of halteres.
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Siphonoptera The Siphonophorae or Siphonophora, the siphonophores, are an order of the Hydrozoa, a class of marine animals belonging to the phylum Cnidaria.
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Hymenoptera The Hymenoptera are one of the largest orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees and ants. Over 150,000 species are recognized, with many more remaining to be described.
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Mantodea The Hymenoptera are one of the largest orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees and ants. Over 150,000 species are recognized, with many more remaining to be described.
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Plectoptera The Plecoptera are an order of insects, commonly known as stoneflies. Some 3,500 species are described worldwide, with new species still being discovered.
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