Grylloblattodea
Rock crawlers or ice crawlers
Mantophasmatodea
The gladiators or heel walkers
Phasmatodea
Stick & leaf insects
Embioptera
Webspinners
Pscocodea
Book lice, bark lice and true lice
Thysanoptera
Thrips
How many Hemiptera suborders?
4
Sternorrhyncha
-about 49 fams
-ONLY herbivorous
-aphids, scale insects, the basal hemipteran suborder
Auchenorrhyncha
-33 fams
-ONLY herbivorous
-the Hoppers + spittle bugs
-leaf hopper pest of wineries
-plant hopper = filter chamber
Heteroptera
- about 88 fams, the TRUE bugs
-herbivorous, predacious, parasitic
-largest hemiptera suborder - it is very diverse
Coleorrhyncha
-single fam, uncommon
-herbivorous on mosses & liverworts
-found only in Southern Hemisphere
-likely originated in Antartica
Hemiptera
Bugs, aphids, hoppers, etc
Raphidioptera
Snakeflies
Megaloptera
Alderflies, Dobson flies and fishflies
Neuroptera
Lacewings, antlions, mantidflies
Which hemiptera suborders have the rostrum permanently directed backwards?
Sternorrhyncha & Auchenorryhncha