Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Insects & Living orders (Imms.) : A Brief Idea (ENTOMOLOGY GUIDE FOR SEMESTER 1 CCF)

✔️Who are insects?
Phylum Arthropods are Protostomes.
✔️Representative of Class Insecta have following characters:
  • 6 segments fused to form head.
  • 1 pair antenna.
  • Trunk:3 segmented;
  • Thorax is divided into Prothorax, Mesothorax & Metathorax.
  • A pair of legs originated from every thoracic segments .So total 3 pair of legs are present.
  • Abdomen :11 segmented
  • 2 pair of wings are present on dorsal side.Fore wing is harder than membranous hind wing beneath.Presence of median ocelli &  compound eyes. 
✔️General Characteristics of Class Insecta and living orders with examples: Orthoptera, Dictyoptera, Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Anoplura (Imms, A.D., 1938) 


 

 

 

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