Distance Education ENY 4161/6166

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1. You have a small living organism in your hands. What will it take to convince someone that it is an insect? List several things that can be seen.
2. List 3 differences between a fly (Diptera) and a bee (Hymenoptera).
3. Distinguish between the type of mouthparts of Diptera and Coleoptera.
4. What is the term given to the hardened forewings of beetles?
5. List the insect orders from those below that have complete metamorphosis?

Diptera, Hemiptera, Homoptera, Siphonaptera, Mecoptera, Coleoptera, Dermaptera, Diplura, Orthoptera, Lepidoptera

Orders with complete metamorphosis are:
6. Who is considered the Father of Binomial nomenclature?
7. What is a holotype?
8. What is a paratype?
9. Define allopatric.
10. Define sympatric.
11. What is a halter? In what Order(s) does it occur?
12. What is complete metamorphosis? Name the developmental stages.
13. List the 5 segments of an adult insect leg, starting at the body and moving to the end of a leg
14. Define endemic?
15. Approximately how many insect Orders are recognized today
16. What is a synonym?
17. On what part (structure) of an adult insect might pulvilli and empodia be found?
18. What is a tarsomere?
19. What are you expecting to learn from this course?
20. How are the terms precinctive and adventive used?