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