External Anatomy
The first segment of an insect's leg that attaches the leg to the thorax
What is the Coxa?
Blow fly family name
What is Calliphoridae?
The amount of legs that insects possess
What are six legs?
The type of eyes that insects possess
What are compound eyes?
Primary body cavity of invertebrates containing circulatory fluid, and blood
What is the hemocel?
What is the ovipositor?
Flesh fly family name
What is Sarcophagidae?
What is millipede?
Hardened areas of insect’s body wall that are made of sclerotin, a material that’s mainly proteins and chitin
What are sclerites?
Fluid equivalent to blood in most invertebrates
What is hemolymph?
Single lens eyes in certain insects, used for identification
House fly family name
What is musca domestica?
The cephalothorax belongs to this arthropod
What is the arachnid?
The leading edge of an insect’s wing, nerve that runs along the upper edge of the wing
What is the costa?
Respiratory openings that allow insects to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide
What are spiracles?
A plate like structure that covers the upper surface of an insect's thorax
What is the pronotum?
Skipper fly family name
What is Piophilidae?
Centipedes possess this many pairs of legs per body segment
What is one pair?
The thoracic body is composed of these three parts
What is the dorsal, ventral, and lateral?
The second segment of the antenna, which contains muscles that allow insects to the control their antenna movements
What is the pedicel?
Lateral sclerite of thoracic segment between the tergum and the sternum
What is the pleuron?
Scuttle fly family name
What is phoridae?
The amount of body segments that insects possess
What is three?
Posterior portion of the mesonotum
What is the scutellum?
First segment of an insect’s antenna and attached to the insect’s head in a socket
What is the scape?