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Scientific classification is used to classify insects into taxonomic groups from the largest (kingdom) to the smallest (species) based on physical characteristics. Insects belong to the kingdom Animalia and phylum Arthropoda. There are 31 orders of insects, 16 of which are economically important. Examples of common insect orders discussed in the document include Orthoptera (crickets and grasshoppers), Hemiptera (true bugs), Homoptera (aphids and scales), Coleoptera (beetles), and Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). Each order has distinct characteristics around mouthparts, metamorphosis, and included insect families.

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Insect Classification No Background

Scientific classification is used to classify insects into taxonomic groups from the largest (kingdom) to the smallest (species) based on physical characteristics. Insects belong to the kingdom Animalia and phylum Arthropoda. There are 31 orders of insects, 16 of which are economically important. Examples of common insect orders discussed in the document include Orthoptera (crickets and grasshoppers), Hemiptera (true bugs), Homoptera (aphids and scales), Coleoptera (beetles), and Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). Each order has distinct characteristics around mouthparts, metamorphosis, and included insect families.

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  • Introduction to Insect Classification: Introduces the concept of insect classification and sets the stage for detailed discussions on various insect orders.
  • Scientific Classification: Explains the hierarchical system used to classify living organisms, from kingdom to individual species.
  • Identification of Insects: Discusses how scientific classification aids in grouping insects based on physical characteristics.
  • Hierarchy of Scientific Classification: Outlines the levels of biological classification relevant to understanding insect taxonomy.
  • Insect Kingdom Overview: Describes the placement of insects within the broader animal kingdom and their biological traits.
  • Classes of Arthropods: Highlights the five main classes of arthropods, focusing on differences in body structure and appendages.
  • Orders of Insects: Lists the significant insect orders within the class Hexapoda, crucial for agricultural studies.
  • Orthoptera: Covers key features of Orthoptera, including species examples and their ecological roles.
  • Hemiptera – True Bugs: Discusses characteristics and impact of true bugs within the Hemiptera order.
  • Homoptera: Examines the Homoptera order, with emphasis on features and functions of included insects.
  • Coleoptera: Describes the insect order Coleoptera, detailing major families and their roles in ecosystems.
  • Lepidoptera: Focuses on Lepidoptera, exploring various species such as butterflies and moths, and their natural history.
  • Diptera: Discusses the order Diptera, known for flies and mosquitoes, and their impact on human activities.
  • Hymenoptera: Explores the Hymenoptera order, detailing species like bees and ants and their important ecological roles.
  • Odonata: Highlights the order Odonata with focus on dragonflies, describing their life cycle and ecological significance.
  • Neuroptera: Delves into Neuroptera, noting key species and their unique adaptations.
  • Thysanura: Details the Thysanura order, explaining their distinct morphological traits and behaviors.
  • Isoptera: Provides insights into Isoptera, focusing on termites and their ecological impacts.
  • Siphonaptera: Explains the order Siphonaptera, emphasizing flea impacts on hosts and control measures.
  • Phthiraptera: Examines Phthiraptera, describing the biology and control of lice affecting animals and humans.
  • Blattodea: Discusses the order Blattodea, known for cockroaches, analyzing their adaptability and habitat preferences.
  • Dermaptera: Covers Dermaptera, particularly earwigs, with focus on their homely environments and adaptations.
  • Thysanoptera: Explores Thysanoptera, detailing physical features and agricultural importance of various thrips.
  • Conclusion: Ticket Out: Recaps the training session by prompting learners to recall key insect order features for review.

Lesson: Insect

Classification

What is Scientific Classification?

Scientific Classification is a system


used to classify all living things
through a breakdown starting with
the largest grouping called a
Kingdom and continuing down to the
smallest grouping called Individual.

Why is Scientific Classification used in the


identification of insects?

Insects can be placed into groupings


based upon their physical characteristics.
Insects with similar characteristics,
number of wings, mouthparts, etc. are
placed in a group with other insects that
possess the same characteristics.
Identification of insect orders aids in
prevention and management plans.

Scientific Classification
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

Where do Insects fit?

Insects belong in the Kindgom


Animalia, Phylum Arthropoda. The
Phylum Arthropoda is characterized
by having segmented bodies and
jointed appendages.

5 Classes of Arthropods

Class #1- Hexapoda: Insects,


six, jointed appendages
Class #2- ChilopodaCentipedes, one pair of legs
per body segment, multiple
body segments
Class #3- DiplapodaMillipedes, two pairs of legs
per body segment, multiple
body segments
Class #4- CrustaceaCrayfish, five pairs of jointed
appendages
Class #5- Arachnida- Spiders,
four pairs of jointed
appendages

There are 31 different orders of insects in the


class Hexapoda, sixteen of which are considered
of economic importance to agriculturists.

The sixteen orders are:

Orthoptera
Hemiptera
Homoptera
Coleoptera
Lepidoptera
Diptera
Hymenoptera
Odonata
trevor was
here

Neuroptera
Thysanura
Isoptera
Siphonaptera
Phthiraptera
Thysanoptera
Dermaptera
Blattodea

Orthoptera
Includes:
Indian House Crickets
Field Cricket
Short-horned Grasshoppers
Katydid (Long-horned Grasshoppers)
Mouthparts:
Chewing
Metamorphosis:
Incomplete Metamorphosis
Damage: Chewing leaves, Crop grains,
Fun Facts:
Many produce sound through stridulating.
Over 20,000 species worldwide.

Hemiptera True Bugs


Includes:
Assassin bugs
Kissing bugs
Leaf-footed bug
Lygus bug
Stink bug
Minute pirate bug
Big-eyed bug
Damsel bug
Mouthparts:
Piercing-Sucking
Metamorphosis:
Incomplete Metamorphosis
Fun Facts:
All of the true bugs are in this order.
Most have a common v shape on their shield.

Homoptera
Includes:
Cicadas
Aphids
Armored scales
Cottony cushion scale
Cochineal scale
Leafhoppers
Treehoppers
Whiteflies
Mouthparts:
Sucking
Metamorphosis:
Generally incomplete
Fun Facts:
Cochineal scales are used in
makeup products for the red
color.

Coleopter
a Beetles and Weevils
Includes:

Blister beetle
Boll weevil
Collops beetle
Darkling beetle (Pinacate or
Eleodes beetle)
Dermestid beetle
Dung beetle
Fig beetle
Flea beetle
Lady beetle (Ladybird beetle/
Ladybug)
Long-horned beetle (roundheaded wood borer)
Palo Verde root borer
Metallic wood borer (flat-headed
borer)
White grub (Scarab beetle larva)
10 Striped June beetle
Mouthparts:
Chewing, Weevil- Piercing Sucking
Metamorphosis:
Complete Metamophosis
Fun Facts:
Coleoptera means sheath wing.

Lepidoptera
Includes: Butterflies and Moths
Bagworm

Two-tailed Swallowtail

Budworm/Bollworm

Pink Bollworm

Grape-leaf Skeletonizer

Salt Marsh Caterpillar

Tomato Hornworm

Sphinx Moth

Monarch

Checkered skipper
Mouthparts: Chewing Caterpillars,
Siphoning adult.
Metamorphosis:
Complete Metamorphosis
Fun Facts: The largest butterfly is the
Birdwings that have 11in wingspans.

Diptera
Includes: Flies, Midges,
Mosquito
House fly
Crane fly
Syrphid or hover fly
Bee fly
Tachinid fly
Bot fly
Deer fly
Mosquito
Gall Midge
Mouthparts:
Sponging, Piercing suckingMosquito
Metamorphosis:
Complete Metamophosis
Facts: Are common vectors of
disease.

Hymenoptera
Includes: Bees, Wasps, Ants
Horntail wasp
Sawfly
Gall wasps
Honey bee
Leaf-cutter bee
Carpenter bee
Bumble bee
Harvester ant
Leaf-cutter ant
Fire ant
Velvet Ant (mutillid)
Paper wasp
Ichneumon wasp
Thread-waisted wasp
Tarantula hawk (spider wasp)

Mouthparts:
Chewing-Lapping
Metamorphosis:
Complete Metamophosis
Facts: Contain all the social
insects except termites.

Odonata
Includes: Dragonfly,
Damselfly

Mouthparts:
Chewing-Lapping
Metamorphosis:
Complete
Metamorphosis
Facts:
Live in the water the first
year of their lives.
After leaving the water
they only live a month.
Have been around 300
million years.

Neuroptera
Includes:
Green Lacewing
Antlion

Mouthparts:
Metamorphosis:
Complete Metamorphosis
Facts:
Both are beneficial insects.
Antlions creat a sand pit to
capture unsuspecting prey.

Includes:
Silverfish
Firebrat
Springtail
Mouthparts: Chewing
Metamorphosis:
Incomplete Metamorphosis
Facts:
Like to lay their eggs in books and wall paper
because of the paper and glue.
Live 3-5 years
Most primitive of all insects.

Thysanura

Isoptera
Includes:

Dry-wood termite
Subterranean termite

Mouthparts: Chewing Mouthparts


Metamorphosis:
Incomplete Metamorphosis
Facts:
Live for 15 years.
Lay 1 egg every 15 seconds
Eat wood. Can destroy a house in 2-3 years.
Found in every US state except Alaska.
Recycle wood in the soil.

Includes:
Cat and dog flea
Mouthparts:
Piercing Sucking
Metamorphosis:
Complete Metamorphosis
Facts:
Fleas can live 100 days without
feeding.
Can jump 100 times their own length.
Been around more than 100 million
years.
Females can consume more than 15
times their body weight daily.

Siphonaptera

Includes: Lice
Chewing Louse
Sucking Louse

Mouthparts:
Chewing and Piercing-Sucking
Metamorphosis:
Incomplete Metamorphosis
Facts:
Sucking lice feed continuously on blood
Chewing lice feed on hair and feathers of animals and
humans.
Wingless. Do not fly or jump

Phthiraptera
Formally Anoplura and Mallophaga

Includes: Cockroaches
American Cockroach
Brown-banded cockroach
Desert Cockroach
Turkish Cockroach
German Cockroach
Mouthparts: Chewing Mouthparts
Metamorphosis:

Complete Metamorphosis
Facts:
Typically Live outside
Walk inside. DO NOT live in the water pipes.

Blattodea

Includes: Earwigs
Earwig
Mouthparts: Chewing Mouthparts
Metamorphosis:
Incomplete Metamorphosis
Facts:
Like humid, dark areas.
Release a foul smelling liquid up to 4in away.
Oldest known fossil dates back to Jurassic period.

Dermaptera

Includes: Thrip
Thrip

Mouthparts: Rasping-Sucking Mouthparts

Metamorphosis:
Complete Metamorphosis
Facts:
Common Pests on flowers, citrus and onions.

Multiples of this pest are still called Thrip.

Thysanoptera

Ticket Out
list 1 insect order
2-5 insects in that order
mouthparts in that order
lifecycles in that order

Lesson: Insect Lesson: Insect Classification Classification
What is Scientific Classification? What is Scientific Classification? Scientific Classification is a system Scientific Clas
Why is Scientific Classification used in the Why is Scientific Classification used in the identification of insects? identi
Scientific Classification Scientific Classification Kingdom Kingdom Phylum Phylum Class Class Order Order Family Famil
Where do Insects fit? Where do Insects fit? Insects belong in the Kindgom Insects belong in the Kindgom Animalia, Phylum A
• 5 Classes of Arthropods 5 Classes of Arthropods Class #1- Class #1- Hexapoda: Insects, Hexapoda: Insects, six, jointed
• There are 31 different orders of insects in the There are 31 different orders of insects in the class Hexapoda, sixteen o
Orthoptera Orthoptera Includes: Includes: Indian House Crickets Indian House Crickets Field Cricket Field Cricket
Hemiptera – True Bugs Hemiptera – True Bugs Includes: Includes: Assassin bugs Kissing bugs Leaf-footed bug Lygus bug Stink
Homoptera Homoptera Includes: Includes: Cicadas Aphids Armored scales Cottony cushion scale Cochineal scale Leafhoppe

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