Insect
Appearance
Insects (Insecta) are the predominant group of arthropods, placed within the class Hexapoda along with the Protura, Collembola, and Diplura. Insects are the only group other than vertebrates to have developed flight.
wingless insects
- Order Archaeognatha (Jumping bristletails)
- Order Monura - extinct
- Order Thysanura (Common bristletails: silverfish, firebrats)
- Order Mantophasmatodea (newly discovered wingless insects)
Pterygota, the winged insects
- Order Palaeodictyoptera - extinct
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- Order Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
- Order Odonata (Dragonflies and damselflies)
Neoptera, insects with folding wings
- Order Blattodea (Cockroaches)
- Order Mantodea (Mantids)
- Order Isoptera (Termites)
- Order Zoraptera (Zorapterans)
- Order Grylloblattodea (Ice Insects)
- Order Dermaptera (Earwigs)
- Order Plecoptera (Stoneflies)
- Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids)
- Order Phasmatodea (Walking sticks, timemas)
- Order Embioptera (Webspinners)
- Order Psocoptera (Booklice and barklice)
- Order Phthiraptera (Sucking lice and chewing lice)
- Order Hemiptera (True bugs, cicadas and kin - formerly Heteroptera + Homoptera)
- Order Thysanoptera (Thrips)
Endopterygota, insects with complete metamorphosis
- Order Miomoptera - extinct
- Order Megaloptera (Alderflies, dobsonflies, and fishflies)
- Order Raphidioptera (Snakeflies)
- Order Neuroptera (Net-veined insects)
- Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Order Strepsiptera (Twisted-winged parasites)
- Order Mecoptera (Scorpionflies and kin)
- Order Siphonaptera (Fleas)
- Order Diptera (Flies)
- Order Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
- Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and moths)
- Order Hymenoptera (Bees, ants, wasps, sawflies, and kin)