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COLEOPTERA <General Characteristics> [Latest
Classification] Anthicidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Anthribidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Brentidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Cantharidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Carabidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Cicindelidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Cleridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Coccinellidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Colydiidae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Cucujidae (incl. Passandridae) <Habits>; <Adults>
& Dascillidae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Dermestidae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Drilidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Dytiscidae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Ectrephidae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Elateridae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Eucnemidae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Gyrinidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Haliplidae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Helodidae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Histeridae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Hydrophilidae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Hygrobiidae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Lampyridae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Lathridiidae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Leptinidae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Lycidae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Melandryidae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Meloidae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Melyridae (= Malachiidae) <Habits>; <Adults> & Mordellidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Mycetophagidae <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Nitidulidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Ostomatidae <Habits>; <Adults & <Juveniles> Paussidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Phalacridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Phengodidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Pselaphidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Pythidae (= Salpingidae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Rhipiceridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Rhizophagidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Rhipiphoridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Rhysodidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Scarabaeidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Silphidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Staphylinidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles>
Tenebrionidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Throscidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Trogidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Trogossitidae (= Ostomidae) <Habits>; <Adults> & Misc.
Families <General Habitss> DERMAPTERA <General Characteristics>;
<Adults> &
<Juveniles> [Latest
Classification] DIPTERA <General Characteristics>; <Juveniles> [Latest
Classification] Orthorrhapha Asilidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Blepharoceridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Bombyliidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Cecidomyiidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Ceratopogonidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Chironomidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Culicidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Cyrtidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Dolichopodidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Empididae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Limnobiidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Mycetophagidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Mydidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Nemestrinidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Orphnephilidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Rhagionidae (Leptidae) <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Scenopinidae <Habits>; Adults> & <Juveniles> Stratiomyiidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Tabanidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Therevidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Tipulidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Misc.
Orthorrhapha <Habits>; <Adults>
& <Juveniles> Cyclorrhapha Acroceridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Agromyzidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Anthomyiidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Apioceridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Braulidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Calliphoridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Chamaemyidae (Ochthiphilidae) <Habits>; <Adults> & Chloropidae (Oscinidae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Conopidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Drosophilidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Lonchaeidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Milichiidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Otitidae (Ortalidae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Phoridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Pipunculidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Pyrgotidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Sarcophagidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Scatophagidae (Cordyluridae) <Habits>; <Adults>
& Syrphidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Tachinidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> EMBIOPTERA <General Characteristics> [Latest Classification] HEMIPTERA <General
Characteristics> [Latest Classification] Anthocoridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Belostomatidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Enicocephalidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Gelastocoridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Gerridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Lygaeidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Miridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Nabidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Naucoridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Nepidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Notonectidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Ochteridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Pentatomidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Phymatidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Reduviidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Saldidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Vellidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> HOMOPTERA <General Characteristics> [Latest
Classification] EPHEMEROPTERA <General Characteristics> [Latest
Classification] |
HYMENOPTERA <General Characteristics> [Latest
Classification] Symphyta
(Chalastogastra)--sawflies & horntails
(Sawflies, mostly phytophagous) <General Characteristics> Orussoidea Orussidae <Overview>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Tenthredinoidea Tenthredinidae <Overview>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Apocrita (Clistogastra, Petiolata)--
parasitic/predatory Apocrita Aculeata (stinging
Hymenoptera) Apoidea <Overview> Andrenidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Anthophoridae (= Nomadidae) <Habits>; <Adults>
& Apidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Halictidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Colletidae (= Hylaeidae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Ctenoplectridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Fideliidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Hylaeidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Megachilidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Melittidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Nomadidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Oxaeidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Stelidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Stenotritidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Sphecidae (= previously under Sphecoidea) <Habits>;
<Adults> & Ampulicinae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Astatinae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Bembicinae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Cercerinae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Crabroninae <Habits>; >Adults> & <Juveniles> Larrinae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Mellininae <Habits><Adults>
& <Juveniles> Nyssoninae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Pemphredoninae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Philanthinae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Pseninae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Sphecinae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Stizinae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Trypoxylinae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Chrysidoidea ( = Bethyloidea) <Overview> Bethylidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Chrysididae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (+ Cleptidae <Habits>); <Adults> & <Juveniles> Dryinidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Embolemidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Plumariidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Sclerogibbidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Scolebythidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Vespoidea <Overview> Bradynobaenidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Formicidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles>
[formerly Formicoidea <Overview>] Eumenidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Methocidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Sierolomorphidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Vespidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles>
Scoliidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles>
[formerly as
Scolioidea <Overview>] [
formerly Pompiloidea <Overview>] Rhopalosomidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Pompilidae (= Psammocharidae) <Habits>; <Adults> &
[formerly Tiphioidea <Overview>] Tiphiidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Sapygidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles>
[formerly Mutillidae <Habits>;
<Adults> & <Juveniles>]
[formerly Thynnidae <Habits>;
<Adults> & <Juveniles>] Apocrita Parasitica (nonstinging Hymenoptera) Ceraphronoidea <Overivew> Calliceratidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Ceraphronidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Megaspilidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Chalcidoidea <Overview>; <General
References> Agaonidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Aphelinidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Chalcididae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Elasmidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Encyrtidae <Habits>; <Adults-1> & <Adults-2>;
& Eucharitidae (= Eucharidae) <Habits>; <Adults> & Eulophidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Eupelmidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Eurytomidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Leucospidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Mymaridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Ormyridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Perilampidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Pteromalidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Asaphinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Austroterobiinae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Austrosystasinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Brachyscelidiphaginae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Ceinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Cerocephalinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Chromeurytominae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Cleonyminae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Coelocybinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Colotrechinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Cratominae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Diparinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Ditropinotellinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Elatoidinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Erotolepsiinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Eunotinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Eutrichosomatinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Herbertinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Keiraninae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles>
(Leptofoeninae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Louriciinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Macromesinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Miscogasterinae) <Habits>;
<Adults> & <Juveniles> (Neodiparinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Nefoeninae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Ormocerinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Panstenoninae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Parasaphodinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Pireninae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Pteromalinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Spalangiinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Storeyinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Rotoitidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Signiphoridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Tanaostigmatidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Tetracampidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> |
Cynipoidea <Overview> Cynipidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Charipinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Cynipinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> (Eucoilinae) <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Figitidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Ibaliidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Liopteridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Evanioidea <Overview> Aulacidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Evaniidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Gasteruptiidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Ichneumonoidea <Overview> Apozygidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Braconidae <Habits>; <Adults-1> & <Adults-2>
& <Adults-3>
& <Juveniles> Aphidiinae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Ichneumonidae <Habits>; <Adults-1> & <Adults-2>
& Agriotypinae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Paxylommatidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Megalyroidea <Overview> Megalyridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles>
Mymarommatoidea
(or Serphitoidea) Mymerommatidae (= Callimomidae) <Habits>; <Adults> & Platygastroidea Platygastridae (= Platygasteridae) <Habits>; <Adults> & Scelionidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Proctotrupoidea <Overview> Austroniidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Diapriidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Heloridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles>
[formerly Mesoserphidae <Habits>;
<Adults> & <Juveniles>] Monomachidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles>
[formerly Monoserphidae <Habits>;
<Adults> & <Juveniles>] Pelecinidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Peradeniidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Proctotrupidae (= Serphidae) <Habits>; <Adults> & Roproniidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Serphidae (now with Proctotrupidae) <Habits>; <Adults> & Vanhorniidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Stephenoidea <Overview> Stephanidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles>
Trigonalyoidea <Overview> Trigonalyidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> ISOPTERA <General Characteristics>
[Latest Classification] LEPIDOPTERA <General Characteristics> [Latest
Classification] Blastobasidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Chrysaugidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Cosmopterigidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Cyclotornidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Epipyropidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Heliodinidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Lycaenidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Noctuidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Oinophilidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Olethreutidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Phycitidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Psychidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Pyralidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Pyraustidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Tortricidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> MALLOPHAGA
<General
Characteristics> [Latest
Classification] MECOPTERA <General
Characteristics>; <Adults>
&
<Juveniles> [Latest
Classification] NEUROPTERA <General Characateristics> [Latest
Classification] Apochrysidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Ascalaphidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Berothidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Chrysopidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Coniopterygidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Corydalidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Dilaridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Hemerobiidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Inocelliidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Ithonidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Mantispidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Myiodactylidae <Habits>; Adults> & <Juveniles> Myrmeleontidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Nemopteridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Nymphidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Osmylidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Polystoechotidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Psychopsidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Raphidiidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Sialidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Sisyridae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Stilbopterygidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Sympherobiidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Trichomatidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> ODONATA <General Characteristics>;
<Adults> & <Juveniles> [Latest
Classification] ORTHOPTERA <General Characteristics>;
<Adults> & <Juveniles> [Latest
Classification] Tettigoniidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Gryllacrididae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Gryllidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> Mantidae <Habits>; <Adults> & <Juveniles> PHTHIRAPTERA = ANOPLURA
<General Characteristics> [Latest Classification] PLECOPTERA <General Characteristics>;
<Adults> &
<Juveniles> [Latest
Classification] PSOCOPTERA (=
Corrodentia) <General Characteristics, #2>; <Adults,
#2>
& <Juveniles, #2> [Latest
Classification] SIPHONAPTERA <General Characteristics> [Latest Classification] STREPSIPTERA <General Characteristics>;
<Adults> &
<Juveniles> [Latest
Classification] THYSANOPTERA <General Characteristics>;
<Adults> &
<Juveniles> [Latest
Classification] THYSANURA <General
Characteristics>; <Adults> &
<Juveniles> [Latest
Classification] THYSANOPTERA <General
Characteristics> [Latest
Classification] TRICHOPTERA <General Characteristics>;
<Adults> & <Juveniles> [Latest
Classification] ZORAPTERA <General Characteristics>
[Latest Classification] |
(For References, please refer
to <biology.ref.htm> & <General References> [Additional references may be found at: MELVYL Library]
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