Recent classification of
orders of insects
Class Insecta of Phylum Arthropoda has undergone and continues to undergo changes in its classification. Click on each insect order and it will open with examples and images
Class PROTURA
Proturans
Class COLLEMBOLA
Collembolans
Diplurans
Jumping bristletails
Silverfish, firebrats
Mayflies
Dragonflies, damselflies
Angel insects
Earwigs
Stoneflies
Grasshoppers, katydids, crickets
Ice crawlers, rock crawlers, gladiator bugs
Webspinners
Stick insects, Leaf insects
Mantids
Cockroaches, termites
Thrips
Bugs, cicadas, hoppers, aphids, scales
Barklice, booklice, parasitic lice
Wasps, bees, ants & sawflies
Snakeflies
Alderflies, dobsonflies
Lacewings, antlions,owlfly, mantisfly
Twisted-wing parasites
Beetles & Weevils
Caddisflies
Butterflies, moths
Fleas
Scorpionflies
Flies, mosquitoes
Compiled by Gary Parsons
Presented at seminar to Entomology Department 12 October 2015. Michigan State University
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