CLASSIFICATION

OF PHYLUM:
ARTHROPODA

CHARECTERISTIC
FEATURES
Animals covered in hard chitinous shell
Body is segmented and each segment
bears an appendage
Joints are covered by a thin membrane
Appendages may be modified
Complete absence of cilia from all body
parts

Further division : 5
Classes

CLASS: CRUSTACEAE
Mostly aquatic with gills
2 pairs of antennae

Crabs
Lobsters
Prawns
Barnacles

CLASS: ONYCHOPHORA
Terrestrial
Air breathing arthropods
Thin cuticle and numerous hollow
stumpy legs
One pair of jaws
No gills
Single pair of antennae

Peripatus

CLASS : MYRIAPODA
Head followed by many segmented
region
Not differentiated into head and thorax

Centipedes
Millipedes

CLASS: INSECTA
Thorax and abdomen well differentiated
3 pairs of legs

Butterflies
Cockroaches
Flies
Beetles
May

flies
Mosquito

CLASS : ARACHNIDA

Four pairs of legs

Spiders
Scorpion
Limulus

SALIENT FEATURES OF
INSECTA

THREE PAIRSOF LEGS {HEXAPODA}

BODY DIVIDED INTO HEAD THORAX
AND ABDOMEN
HEADSIX SEGMENTS FUSED
TOGETHER IN ADULT
A SINGLE PAIR OF ANTENNAE
[SENSORY IN FUNCTION]
MOUTH PARTSLABRUM, PAIR OF
MANDIBLES, 2 PAIRS OF MAXILLAE

THORAX3 SEGMENTSEACH BEARING A PAIR

OF LEGS
USUALLY 2 PAIRS OF WINGS BORNE ON SECOND
AND THIRD THOAXIC SEGMENTS
ABDOMEN11 OR FEWER SEGMENTSNO
APPENDAGES
RESPIRATIONBY TRACHEAE
GENITAL APPERTUREUSUALLY NEAR THE ANAL
EXTREMITY

NERVOUS SYSTEM2 LARGE

GANGLIONS, CIRCUM-OESOPHAGIAL
RING, DOUBLE GANGILIONATED NERVE
CORD
SIMPLE OR COMPOUND EYES
DEVELOPMENT IS MOSTLY ACCOMPANID
BY METAMORPHOSIS

CLASSIFICATION OF
CLASS: INSECTA

FURTHER CLASSIFICATION IS
BASED ON :
STRUCTURE,

ORIGIN, VENNATION
AND FOLDABILITY OF THE WINGS
NATURE OF THE MOUTH PARTS
DEGREEOF METAMORPHOSIS

CLASS : INSECTA

APTERYGOTA

Primitive, wingless insects

No metamorphosis
Further divided into 4 orders

PTERYGOTA
Insects with wings
Undergo complete and incomplete
Metamorphosis
Further divided into 25 orders

SUB CLASS :
APTERYGOTA

1. ORDER :
THYSANURA

EXAMPLE
SILVER FISH
CTENOLEPISMA

Also known as Zygentoma

Encompasses
the silverfish or fishmoths, and firebrats.
Members of the order are best known
for their three long caudal filaments.
Further divided into 5 families
Lepismatidae is the largest family,
widespread with more than 200 species,
many living in human habitations.
The Nicoletiidae are small and live in
soil litter, humus and under stones

2.ORDER: COLLUMBOLA
SPRING TAILS
ISOTOMA

Orchesella cincta

They form the largest of the three lineages

of modern hexapods
Some studies do not consider them to be
insects
They have internal mouthparts opposed to
the external mouth parts in insects
Along with Protura and Diplura are now
placed in a class called Entognatha

3. ORDER : PROTURA
Coneheads

Some evidence indicates the Protura

are basal to all other hexapods

There are close to 800 species,

described in seven families.
Nearly 300 species are contained in a
single genus, Eosentomon

Acerentomon

4. ORDER : DIPLURA
BRISTLE TAILS
CAMPODA
JAPYX
ANAJAPYX

Campodea staphylinus

They are sometimes called "twopronged bristletails".

Around 800 species have been
described, of which around 70 occur
in North America,12 in Great Britain[4]
and two in Australia.

SUB CLASS:
PTERYGOTA

5. ORDER:
EPHEMEROPTERA
MAY FLIES

This order is part of an ancient group of

insects termed the Palaeoptera, which
also
contains dragonflies and damselflies.
Over 3,000 species of mayfly are known
worldwide, grouped into over
400 genera in 42 families.
Mayflies are relatively primitive insects
and exhibit a number of ancestral traits
that were probably present in the first
flying insects, such as long tails and
wings that do not fold flat over
the abdomen

6. ORDER :
ODONATA
DRAGON FLIES
DAMSELFLIES

7. ORDER:
PLECOPTERA
STONE FLIES

8. ORDER:
GRYLLOBLATTODEA

9.ORDER:
ORTHOPTERA
GRASSHOPPER
LOCUST
CRICKET
MOLE-CRICKET

10.ORDER :
PHASMIDA
Stick insect
Leaf insect

11. ORDER :
DERMAPTERA
EARWIGS

12. ORDER : EMBIOPTERA

EMBIA
PSEUDEMBIA

13.ORDER:
DICTYOPTERA
COCKROACHES
PRAYING MANTIDS

14. ORDER :
ISOPTERA
TERMITES

15. ORDER : ZORAPTERA

Zorotypus sp.

16. ORDER :
PSOCOPTERA
BOOK LICE
BARK LICE

17. ORDER:
MALLAPHAGA
BIRD LICE
Trichodectes

18. ORDER :
SIPHUNCULATA
Sucking lice [Human Head Lice]

19. ORDER :
HEMIPTERA

Plant Bugs
Bed bug [Crimex sp.]

20. ORDER :
THYSANOPTERA
Thrips

21. ORDER :
NEUROPTERA
Lacewings

22. ORDER :
MECOPTERA
Scorpion fly

23.ORDER :
LEPIDOPTERA
Butterflies
Moths

24. ORDER :
TRICHOPTERA
Caddis flies

25.ORDER:
DIPTERA

TRUE FLIES
House fly
Mosquito

26.ORDER :
SIPHONOPTERA

Fleas

27.ORDER :
HYMENOPTERA
Ants
Bees
Hornets
Wasps

28. ORDER :
COLEOPTERA
Beetles

29. ORDER :
STREPSIPTERA

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