Identification of Insect Orders in relation to major families. Major characters of them

3. DICTYOPTERA

4. Head:
Antennae: Long and staceauc
Mouth Parts: Mandibulat
General Characters

5. Thorax
Prothorax:
Greatly visible and varying
i.e. Neck like or semicircular

6. Wings:
Forewing Tegmina
Hind wing broad

7. Legs
Raptorial
Ambulatory

8. Abdomen
Male genitalia is asymmetrical
On 9th segment pair of styli
Cerci many segmented
Cerci>Styli

9. Suborders
Mantodia
Mantidae
Mantids
Blatteria
Blattidae
Cockroaches

10. Mantidae
Head clear
Pronotum neck like
Proleg is raptorial
Remaining legs Cursorial

11. Blattidae
Head is concealed under pronotum
Pronotum is shield like
Legs are cursorial

12. Cockroaches
Omnivores
Salmonella bacteria
Asthma
A medicine “Blatta” to cure

13. Isoptera

14. General Characters
Iso = same
Ptera = wings
Polymorphism
Genetically controlled social
setup
Reproductive and no-reproductive casts
(King & Queen) (Soldier & Workers)

15. Head
Antennae; Moniliform
Mouth parts; Chewing type

16. Thorax & Abdomen
Wings similar
After mating shed
their wings
Tarsi 4 segmented
Short cerci

17. Families
Termitidae
Rhinotermitidae
Kalotermitidae
Hudotermitidae

18. Termitidae
Antinnae: Moniliform
Wing have colour
Forewing have scale
Scale of forewing < pronotum
Pronotum is saddle shaped

19. Radius:
behind the costal margin
Without branching
Redial sector is reduced or absent
Cerci 1 or 2 segmented

21. Rhinotermitidae
Scales of fore wing > Pronotum
Radius vein is behind the costal margin
Radius vein is without anterior branching
Pronotum is flat
Cerci 2 segmented

23. Kalotermitidae
Ocelli absent
Radius vein have 1 or 2 anterior branches

25. Hudotermitidae
Ocelli absent
Radius vein with one or 2 anterior branches

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