Insect Systematics
Insect Systematics
• Taxonomy
• Classifies and organizes biological information according to different
methods.
• Describe the organisms
• Importance: taxonomy that organizes entomological diversity.
• Systematic
• Diversity science
• Organize knowledge about organisms
• Its phylogeny, taxonomy, ecology or paleontology.
• It has a theoretical background that surpasses that of taxonomy and a
predictive vocation.
• Phylogeny
• It is the history or evolutionary chronicle of the species.
• Its mission is to know the evolutionary relationships between groups of
species.
Importance of taxonomic studies
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' Probura 1 Prcbura 1. Pratare 1 Thysarura
Domain : Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis,1978 PTERYGOTHA 4 Collembole PTERYGOT 4 Collembais 4 Archaeagrathe
Kingdom : Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals 4. Orthaptera PTERYGOTHA EXOPTERYGOT PTERYGOT 5. Ty sarure
Subphyllum : Mandibulata Snodgrass, 1938 11 Corodentitis 10. Dermapters 10 E-biaptera 5 Gryilablatades 12. Grpllobletodes
Infraphyllum : Atelocerata Heymons, 1901 12 Melophsga 11. Dipiogesseta 11. 9 Orthopters 13 Dermeptere
Class : Insecta C. Linnaeus, 1758 15 Anoplar 14. Zorepter 14. Anaplurs 12. Embioptere 16 E-bioptera or E~b izina
Infraclass : Pterygota 17 Homopters 1 5. Corrode you 16 Hemiptera 14. lsoptera 18 Psocoptera c Corroderte
Superorder : Condylognatha 1.5 Derapters 17. Valophaga 17. Homaptera 15. Zorepter 19. PshErepthera
Order : Hemiptera C. Linnaeus, 1758 19 Coleaptere 13 Anoplar ENDOPTERYGOUT PTEROID HEM 20 Hemiptera
Suborder : Sternorrhyncha 20 Strepsipters 19. Ephemeris 18 Ne-ropters 16. Psocaptera 21 Thysenopters c Psysopds
Infraorder : Aphidomorpha 21 Mecoptere 20. Odansta 19. 17. Valophega 22. Stepsitters
1. Head
2. The thorax
3. The abdomen (No. of abdominal segments)
4. Metamorphosis
5. Habitat
6. Economic importance
7. Important Sub Orders, Families, Genera and
Species.
Characterization of the Orders
Protura Order
• Small up to 2 m, elongated and
fusiform
• They do not have antennae or
compound eyes. Pseudoculli or
false eyes
• Sucking mouthparts
• They don't have wings
• Long legs, first pair are tactile
• Abdomen with 12 segments
• Anamorphosis
• They live in all regions of the
world, humid soils
Collembola Order
• Elongated body < 8 mm; covered in hair
or scales
• They have antennae and absent
compound eyes.
• chewing mouthparts
• Abdomen 6 segments and in the first
abdominal segment it has colophore.
• III abdominal segment, has the
retinaculum and in the IV it has the
furcula.
• Ametabole.
• Habitat: organic matter
• Without economic importance, but
some species attack greenhouse
nurseries.
• They are very ancient insects
• They are entognathous
Order Diplura
• Body elongated and flattened,
without median caudal filament.
• They have filiform antennae;
chewing mouthparts.
• Compound eyes and absent
ocelli
• Three pairs of legs. wingless
• Abdomen with 10 segments ,
and the 11th has short cercles.
• Cerci present
• Ametabola.
• Habitat: Universal and in dead
wood, leaf litter.
• Families: Campodeidae,
Projapigidae and Japigidae
Order Thysanura
• Elongated, soft and flattened body
• They have a middle caudal filament.
• Eyes reduced and separated or
absent, ocelli absent.
• Long antennae and chewing
mouthparts.
• Abdomen 11 segments .
• They have style
• Ametabola
• Universally distributed and live in
leaf litter, stones and logs.
• Families: Lepismatidae:
Ctenolepisma longicauda
“Silverfish”, and Thermobia
domestica
• Family Nicoletidae
Order Ephemeroptera
Thin and fragile body, small to medium The male genitalia have efferent
size. vessels with a pair opening, that is,
Triangular head, with short antennae double aedeagus.
Well-developed compound eyes and They are hemimetabolous.
three ocelli • Campodeiform naiads
Mouthparts atrophied in adults and • The adult has a lifespan of 48 hours.
chewing in nymphs Wings Habitus, adults do not feed, and
membranous, with abundant • adults copulate quickly and die.
intercalary veins Important families: Ephemeridae,
Abdomen with 10 segments , with a Heptageniidae and Baetidae.
pair of long, filiform cerci
Order Odonata
• Narrow and elongated body • Hemimetabolous metamorphosis.
• Large, mobile head • In Anisoptera, naiads breathe through the
Short antennae, three ocelli, large rectum.
• prominent compound eyes Chewing • Habitat Near water sources.
mouthparts • They have no economic importance.
• Robust thorax, short and weak legs that • Sub Order Anisoptera : Big eyes Families:
• together form a basket Aeshnidae, Gomphidae, Libelullidae and
Cordullidae
Two pairs of membranous wings, with
abundant longitudinal and transverse • Sub Order Zygoptera, dichoptic eyes;
veins, hyaline with nodus and pterostigma. Families Coenagrionidae,
Pseudostigmatidae, Megapodagrionidae,
Abdomen elongated, cylindrical with 10 Lestidae and Agrionidae
segments .
The male genitalia are in the third abdominal segment and copulate during flight.
Order Odonata
Order Odonata
Family Aeshnidae
Family Libellulidae
Order Odonata
Family Aeshnidae
Family Libellulidae
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Family Coenagrionidae
Family Lestidae
Odonata nymphs or naiads
Order Plecoptera
• Soft, flattened body, earthy
yellow to yellowish green.
• Transverse and sessile head
• Chewing mouthparts
• Long, filiform antennae
• Small compound eyes and 2
to 3 ocelli
• Well developed thorax
• Aquatic habit.
• membranous wings
• Abdomen with 10 segments
• incomplete metamorphosis;
field-shaped naiads
Blattaria Order
Body dorsumally flattened urban importance
• Chewing mouthparts • Classification:
Two filiform antennae, • Family Blatidae spp > 25 mm.
compound eyes, ocelli in American periplanet
• number of two Family Blatellidae spp < 25 mm.
Apteras or tegminae Blatella germanica
• Very wide coxae legs Abdomen Family Blaberidae
Family Cryptoceridae (from the
11 segments Reduced Valley)
ovipositor Short cerci
• Paurometaboles
• •dimorphism
sexual
• • Nocturnal and
omnivorous
habits; they live
the ground,
scratch leaf
• Of medical and
Blattaria Order
Large American
cockroach (tropical)
Order Blattodea or
Blattaria
Family
Cryptocercidae
Family
Blaberidae
Order Isoptera
• Sclerotization and
ISOPTERA
Termite Anatomy External
pigmentation vary with
breeds Compound Eye Mandible
•
Fontanelle
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wing
"Stick insect"
Family Pseudophasmatidae
Order Embiidin
• Elongated and flattened body; rare
• Well developed head; antennae
filiform, compound eyes large
and small in the female.
• Chewing mouthparts, with
flattened jaw
• Winged and apterous
• Legs with silk glands.
• Abdomen 10 segments
• Paurometaboles
Order Zoraptera
Small insects of 3mm and 7mm wing expansion
Winged and wingless
• Moniliform antennae, they have
compound eyes and 3 ocelli.
chewing mouthparts
• primitive
Abdomen short and robust with
•
11 segments .
Paurometaboles
• coretza habitat of trees
Order Psocoptera or
Corrodentia
Small, wingless or mobile winged
insects.
Large head, long antennae, with “Y”-
shaped epicranial suture.
• Various compound eyes. Chewing
mouthparts with large clypeus
• Winged species keep their wings in the
shape of a gable roof
• 9-segment abdomen
• Paurometaboles, passing through six
stages
Order Psocoptera
Order Psocoptera
book louse
Order Phthirapthera
Sub Order Mallophaga Sub Order Anoplura
Order Phthirapthera: Sub Order Mallophaga
“Chewing lice”
• Flattened body, small between 5
– 6 mm
• Apteros ectoparasites of birds
and mammals
• Large, broad and variable head;
reduced compound eyes; ocelli
absent; nailed or moniliform
antennae
• Chewing mouthparts, located at
the bottom
• Free
Shortprothorax,
legs meso
and metathorax
partially fused
Order Phthirapthera: Sub Order Mallophaga
• Abdomen of 8 to 10 segments , with • Importance: they are pests of
absent cerci domestic animals
• Simple gradual metamorphosis • Important families:
• Habits, they oviposit on the same • Menopodidae Menopom chickens
“chicken louse”
host in the hairs or feathers
• They are specific in relation to their • Gyropidae Gliricola porcelli and
Gyropus ovalis “guinea pig louse”
hosts
• They feed on feathers or hair.
• Trichodectidae Bovicola bovis “cattle
chewing louse” and trichodectis equi
However, it has been observed that “horse chewing louse”
they feed on the bait or follicle. • Philopteridae Lipeurus caponis
• The genus Mecanathus feeds on the “chicken louse” and Goniodes
blood emanating from wounds. dissimilis “European chicken louse”
• Family Gyropidae
• Family Menoponidae
Order Phthirapthera: Sub Order Anoplura
“Bitting lice”
• They are small, apterous with a narrow,
flattened, oval-shaped body.
• Free and conical head
• Stinging-sucking mouthparts, with fleshy,
retractable and unisegmented probocis.
• Reduced compound eyes, no ocelli
• setiform antennae
• Short, narrow thorax with short, robust
legs with a strong, curved claw
• Abdomen with 9 segments , oval with
highly sclerotized and pigmented edge
and without circles
Order Phthirapthera: Sub Order Anoplura
• Simple gradual • Important families:
metamorphosis due to its • Pediculidae Pediculus
apterous condition and its humanus , subspecies
permanent parasitic life capitis ; transmit typhus
• Habits The eggs are attached • Phthiridae Phthirus pubis or
to the host. They are specific pubic louse, which is very
in relation to their hosts small and crab-shaped
• Importance constitute a • Haematopinidae
serious problem for humans Haemathus suis “Pig louse”
and livestock and “ Linognathus ovillus
attacks sheep.”
• Pediculidae • Phthiridae
Order Hemiptera
• The Hemiptera in sensu latus (sl), includes the Homoptera and Heteroptera in sensu stricti (ss).
• They generally have two pairs of wings; The anterior ones being almost always harder in
consistency than the posterior ones, either uniformly (Homoptera) or with the apical portion more
membranous than the rest (Heteroptera). Biting and sucking mouthparts and paurometabolic
metamorphosis.
Order Hemiptera
Sensu
latus
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dark llodus
Stet num dark
clear sternum
Family Nepidae: water scorpions
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Family Belostomatidae
Family Gerridae
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Family Gelastocoridae
“Toad bugs”
Family Tingidae
“Lace bugs”
Family Scutelleridae
Family Cydnidae
Sub Order Homoptera
• Very variable shape, color, inserted in the infero-
posterior part of the head
sizes
• Apterous or winged • Well-developed compound
• Many insects are not typical, eyes, with 2 to 3 ocelli, and
and may be scales or absent in wingless forms.
mealybugs. • Antennas generally well
developed
• Sucking chopper mouthparts
• Thorax not distinguishable
from the abdomen in the
wingless
• The winged forms with
membranous wings; In the
Superfamily Coccoidea,
males have only one pair.
Sub Order Homoptera
• Abdomen of 9 to 11 segments oviparous, viviparous; as well as
and does not present cerci. hermaphroditism
• Gradual metamorphosis. Some • Importance: All are phytophages
species with a very complex and are mostly of economic
biological cycle presenting importance.
bisexual, parthenogenetic • It is divided into 3 series:
generations; they can be Coleorryncha, Auquenorryncha
and Sternorryncha.
functional as in Icerya .
Aleyrodidae Family – White Flies
Family Cicadidae
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Family Membracidae
Family Membracidae
“Aphids”
Aphis craccivora Aphis fabae
a Family Coccidae
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Cup-like
invagination Marginal
•
mushroo
Tubular
duct
Spiracular
setae
Antenna
Tubular duct
Bilocular
pore quinquelocular
3 pores
spiral furrow
Microtubular duct
Discoidal pore
Anal cleft
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digitules
.Claw'
Eggs
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Adult male
Family Coccidae
Saissetia coffeae “Hemispherical scale of Hassi and
Tecoma
Family Calophydae
molle aphid
Family Orthezidae
“Queresas insignia or queresas
“mobile”
Enlarged
mushroom
terminal
Antenna
Labium
Modified
mushroo
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Tubular
duct
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Discoidal
pore
Abdominal
spiral
'Anal ring
with pores
Quadrilocular
and setae
By e Claw
Antenna
Previous
cerarius Discoidal pores
C near eye
Discoidal
pore
Trilocular pore
Translucent
pores
Cerarius
Oral-rim
tubular duct
Circle
b Oral-collar n
tubular ducts
Auxiliary
mushroo
m, Ceranan Multilocular
mushroom Anal pore
cerarius
Family Margaroridae
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