Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The Straight Wings I

At this point of evolution, insects can fold their wings!

The current phylogeny tells us two things:
1) Termites are nothing more than social cockroaches.
2) Mantises are close relatives to cockroaches.

The Orthopterans are all legs ...

Subclass Pterygota

Infraclass Neoptera

Superorder Polyneoptera (Orthopteroidea)

Order Blattodea


















Isoptera (now belongs to Balttodea)


















Order Mantodea


















Order Orthoptera

Family Acrididae

















Family Tettigoniidae


















Family Gryllidae
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4 comments:

  1. CatrinaCOctober 19, 2011 at 10:16 AM

    Haha, didn't expect more to come. These are so cute.

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  2. Rita COctober 19, 2011 at 12:46 PM

    Drawing insects is much faster than drawing humans ... at least for me. LOL
    But I'm not able to cover all the groups before today's exam.

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  3. Jerry COctober 20, 2011 at 12:55 AM

    啊------
    蟲蟲人 又-又-又來了!

    好多好多,還有毛手毛腳的耶!

    啊-----

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  4. Rita COctober 20, 2011 at 4:22 AM

    呵呵其實那不是毛，是刺。

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