Order Phasmatodea •Minor pest/invasive •Tend to be long, thin •Legs evenly spaced •Long thorax
Dec 16, 2015
Order Phasmatodea
• Minor pest/invasive
• Tend to be long, thin
• Legs evenly spaced
• Long thorax
• VERY tiny
• May be wingless or have 4 wings
• Feed on bark
• May also feed on books.
Order Psocoptera (book lice, bark lice)
Order Mallophaga (chewing lice)
• Feed on flakes of skin, feathers, hairs
• Most feed on birds, but some also mammals
• Flattened bodies, with heads larger than thorax
Order Anoplura (Sucking Lice)
• THE lice
• Suck the blood of mammals
• Very tiny head, smaller than thorax
• Wingless, broad/flattened bodies
Functionally diverse• ALL have a sucking
‘beak’• Most have wings,
distinctive• Includes: Water
Skimmers, Assassin Bugs, Stink Bugs, Harlequin Bugs, Bed Bugs and many many many more.
Hemiptera: Corixidae
• Water Boatmen
• Feed on algae
• Tiny forelegs scoop food into mouth
• Large hindlegs
Hemiptera: Notonectidae
• Backswimmers
• Upside down
• Large hind legs
• Small predatory for and mid legs