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Phylum Arthropod; Subphylum Trachiata
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Arthropods
with three (insects) or two (Myryipods) tagmata, all appendages
multiarticulated and apparently uniramous, mandibles that are whole limb jaws
with a biting surface at the tip, with ectodermally derived excretory system of
malphigian tubules, with out a carapace , with aerial gas exchange system of
trachae.
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Phylum Arthropod; Subphylum Trachiata;
Class Myriopoda
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Numerous post cephalic segments that are not
differentiated into thorax and abdomen
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Phylum Arthropod; Subphylum Trachiata;
Class Myriopoda; subclass Chilopoda
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with numerous unfused trunk segments all but the last two with one pair of legs, first pair of legs modified into a poison fang, both pairs of maxillae coalessed |
Phylum Arthropod; Subphylum Trachiata;
Class Insecta
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Uniramians
with postcephalic segments differentiated in to a thorax (3 segments) and
abdomen 11 or fewer segments)
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Phylum Arthropod; Subphylum Trachiata;
Class Insecta; Order Archaeognatha
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Jumping bristletails |
Phylum Arthropod; Subphylum Trachiata;Class Insecta; Order Zygentoa
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Silverfish and fire brats |
Phylum Arthropod; Subphylum Trachiata;Class Insecta; Subclass pterogota; Order Ephemoroptera
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mayflies - aquatic nymphs - predatory only as nymph - adults don't feed |
Phylum Arthropod; Subphylum Trachiata;Class Insecta; Subclass pterogota; Order Odonata
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dragon flies and damsel flies |
Phylum Arthropod; Subphylum Trachiata;Class Insecta; Order Blattaria
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cockroaches - mandibulate chewers |
Phylum Arthropod; Subphylum Trachiata;Class Insecta; Neoptera; Order Mantodea
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mantids - mandibulate chewers |
Phylum Arthropod; Subphylum Trachiata;Class Insecta; Neoptera; Order Isoptera
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termites - mandibulate and chewing mouthparts - except soldiers - modified maxilla as pincers |
Phylum Arthropod; Subphylum Trachiata;Class Insecta; neoptera; Order Orthoptera
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grasshoppers, crickets Romalea, mandibulate chewers |
Phylum Arthropod; Subphylum Trachiata;Class Insecta;neoptera; Order Dermaptera
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earwigs - well developed cerci (terminal abdominal pinchers) - mandibulate chewers |
Phylum Arthropod; Subphylum Trachiata;Class Insecta; neoptera; Eumetabolia; Paraneoptera; Order Hemiptera
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true bugs, mouthparts modified for piercing and sucking - predatory or feed on plants |
Phylum Arthropod; Subphylum Trachiata;Class Insecta; neoptera; Eumetabolia; Paraneoptera; Order Anoplura
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body lice, crab lice, mouthparts greatly modified for piercing and sucking blood (sucking lice) |