Classes of Arthropods
This class of arthropods include dragonflies, beetles, and bees.
What is Insecta?
This group of arthropods have one pair of antennae, three body sections, and three pairs of legs.
What are insects?
This arthropod can cause Lyme disease in humans.
What are ticks?
This class of arthropods include centipedes.
What is Chilopoda?
This group of arthropods have two body sections, no antennae, and four pairs of legs.
What are arachnids?
The process by which an outgrown exoskeleton is shed to allow the arthropod to continue growing.
What is molting?
This class of crustaceans includes shrimp, crabs, and lobsters.
What is malacostraca?
This group of arthropods has two pairs of antennae, two or three body sections, and five or more pairs of legs.
What are crustaceans?
The only arthropod subphyla that has NO marine members.
What is Hexapoda?
This class of arthropod is often mistaken for a crustacean but is more closely related to arachnids. Includes the Horeshoe Crab.
What is Xiphosura or Merostomata?
This group of arthropods has a head segment followed by repeating trunk segments, one pair of antennae, and at least one pair of legs per segment. (Includes both centipedes and millipedes)
What is Myriapoda?
This body structure is the fusion between the thorax and head of some arthropods.
What is the cephalothorax?
This class of arthropods includes sea spiders.
What is Pyncogonida?
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What are the three characteristics that ALL arthropod groups share?
The percentage of all discovered animal species that are arthropods.
What is 80-90%