Animal Order

• Coleoptera

  Beetles.

• Diptera

  A large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes...

• Lepidoptera

  Moths and butterflies.

• Hymenoptera

  An order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps;...

• Hemiptera

  Plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and...

• Neuroptera

  An order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies;...

• Isoptera

  Order of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass...

• Orthoptera

  Grasshoppers and locusts; crickets.

• Siphonaptera

  Fleas.

• Mecoptera

  An order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike...

• Anoplura

  Sucking lice.

• Phasmida

  In some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insec...

• Dictyoptera

  In some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches)...

• Psocoptera

  An order of insects: includes booklice and bark-lice.

• Odonata

  Dragonflies and damselflies.

• Thysanura

  Firebrats; silverfish; machilids.

• Mallophaga

  Biting lice.

• Ephemeroptera

  Mayflies.

• Trichoptera

  An order of insects consisting of caddis flies.

• Thysanoptera

  Thrips.

• Dermaptera

  Earwigs and a few related forms.

• Collembola

  Minute wingless arthropods: springtails.

• Protura

  Minute wingless arthropods: telsontails.

• Embioptera

  Web spinners.

• Plecoptera

  Stoneflies.

• Mantophasmatodea

  An order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from...

Also contains

• Exopterygota

  Subclass of insects characterized by gradual and usually incomplete metamorphosis.