Ento Exam 1

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Digestive and reproduction section
Abdomen
Running legs, long and slender
Cursorial
Temporary food storage area
Crop
Specialized body regions
Tagmata
Obtain nutrients from decomposing plant/animal biomass
Saprophages
Digestive enzymes secreted, absorption of digestion products
Midgut
An individual unit of the eye composed of a lens and receptor cell
Ommatidium
Insect "blood", plasma with water minerals vitamins proteins and other macromolecules, free moving cells, not involved in oxygen transport
Hemolymph
Innervates eyes, antennae, and labrum, processes signals that arrive from the body
Brain
Vision, detects light
Photosensilla
Wings develop externally
Exoterygote
External opening to tracheal tubes
Spiracle
Mechanical stimuli, pressurized, sound/touch/vibrations
Mechanosensilla
Locomotion section
Thorax
Sensory and ingestive body section
Head
Seperate waste products to be excreted from nutrients that are returned to "blood"
Malpighian tubules
Pumps hemolymph from thorax and abdomen into head
Dorsal organ
Seizing prey, enlarged forelegs
Raptorial
Typically stimulates molting
Weight
2 body regions (cephalothorax, abdomen), 2 pairs antennae, different amounts of leg pairs for different examples
Crustacea
Cement layer protects from abrasion, wax layer creates barrier to water movements
Epicuticle
Protects digestive cells without inhibiting nutrient absorption
Peritrophic membrane
Old cuticle remnant, exocuticle and epicuticle
Exuvium
Ingestion, storage, grinding, transport of food to the next region
Foregut
Side plate
Pleuron
Sclerotized plate of body wall
Sclerite
Produce seminal fluid, spermataphore
Male accessory glands
Corpora Cardiaca releases this to start molting process by activating prothoracic glands to secrete ecdysone
PTTH
Upper lip
Labrum
Feed on excrement
Coprophages
Centipede: 2 body regions (head, trunk), one pair of antennae, one pair of legs per segment, legs extend laterally
Millipede: 2 body regions (head, trunk), one pair antennae, 2 par of legs per segment, legs extend underneath trunk
Myriapoda
Secretions to nourish stored sperm
Spermathecal gland
Jumping legs, enlarged femur of hindlegs, long femur and tibia
Saltatorial
Extinct subphylum of Insects
Trilobita
Soft, flexible cuticle without sclerotization
Membrane
Sensory to sample food before ingestion
Palps
Slender and long form hollow needle with two channels and a sheath
Stylet
Winged adult insects
Pterygotes
Hemolymph fills body cavity, does not travel in veins and arteries
Open system
Gas exchange, absorbing O2 and expelling CO2
Respiration
Swimming legs, often flattened and hairy
Natatorial
No antennae, 4 pairs of legs, 2 body regions/tagmata (cephalothorax, abdomen)
Chlicerata
Chitin microfibers surrounded by matrix of protein
Procuticle
1. Apolysis
2. Epidermal cells secrete new epicuticle
3. Old endocuticle digested and absorbed
4. Remnant of old cuticle separates/opens along weak line (suture)
5. Ecdysis & Exuvium
6. Expansion
7. Procuticle differentiates into endo- and exo- cuticle
Molting
A cuticular sensory organ, inverted
Sensillium
Chewing mouthparts
Mandibulata
Glossa
maxilae and labium form tongue
Walking legs, femur and tibia same length
Grassorial
Cross-linked proteins, creating rigid plates, darkens
Exocuticle
Seperates body cavity (hemocoel) from integument
Basement membrane
Cuticular plates that grind solid food
Proventriculous
Absorption of water, salts, essential nutrients prior to feces elimination
Hindgut
Chemicals sent from cells in one part of an organism to cells in another part of the same individual
Hormones
Fin tubule that connects to respiring tissue
Trachaele
Grasping hair shafts
Prehensile
Primary site for enzyme digestion of food and absorption of nutrients
Ventriculus
Innervates mandibles, maxillae, labium
Suboesophageal ganglion
Light sensitive cells without optical system
Dermal detection
Elongated maxilae that extends by blood pressure
Proboscis
Simple eye that detects changes in light intensity
Oceli
Plate on insect's back
Notum
Produce secretions that surround and protect eggs
Female accessory glands
Determines the body form/outcome of the molt, inhibits development of adult characteristics
Juvenile Hormone
Separation of cuticle from epidermis
Apolysis
An aggregation of ommatidium, each acting as a single facet of the eye
Compound eye
Beeswax/honey, shellac, dye, silk
Commercial products from insects
Lower lip
Labium
Relatively abrupt change in body form and physiology between immature and adult stages
Metamorphosis
Incomplete metamorphosis
Hemimetabolous
Brain and series of ganglia joined by paired longitudinal nerve cords interconnected network of nerve cells, information processing, behavavior coordination
Central nervous system
Nitrogen containing polysaccharide, repeating units of monosaccharides to form chains, grouped into bundles, bundles aligned parallel to make sheets, deposited at different angles for strength
Chitin
Escape from old cuticle
Ecdysis
Procuticle and Epicuticle
Cuticle
Certain number of molts and then ends at adult stage
Determinate growth
Jaws that cut/macerate food
Mandibles
Stiffening of the cuticle by cross-linkage of protein chains
Sclerotization
Stores sperm until needed for egg fertilization
Spermatheca
The process of eliminating metabolic waste
Excretion
Pumps/pushes food into gut
Pharynx
A rubber-like or elastic protein in some insect cuticle
Resilia
Feed on wood
Xylophages
Bottom plate
Sternum
Integument of the insect, external, hardened, cuticular skeleton to which muscles are attached internally, barrier against desiccation, provides structure/support, surface for internal muscle attachment, protection from damage and infection, sensory interface with environment
Exoskeleton
Body cavity between alimentary canal and integument
Hemocoel
No metamorphosis, non-insect hexapods and apterygote insects
Ametabolous
Continue molting, no terminal molt
Indeterminate growth
Challenge of exoskeleton
Growth
Internal tubular element through which air moves
Trachea
Can digest polyethelene
Plastivore
Moves food into storage area
Esophagous
Undifferentiated portion of the procuticle
Endocuticle
Accessory jaws that assist mandibles in processing food
Maxillae
Complete metamorphosis
Holometabolous
3 pairs of legs, 3 tagmata (head, thorax, abdomen), one pair of antennae
Hexapoda
The formation of new cuticle and shedding of old cuticle
Molting
Chemical stimuli, taste/smell
Chemosensilla
The breakdown of food to extract nutrients and other substances for use by cells for energy, growth, or reproduction
Digestion
Hair-like/spine cuticular extensions
Setae
Non-winged adult insects
Apterygotes
Labium of proboscis extend and form membranous lobe
Labellum
Wings develop internally
Endoterygote
Single layer secretory tissue, produces cuticle layers
Epidermis
Form of insect between molts
Instar
Produces Juvenile Hormone
Corpora Allata
Moving through soil, large forelegs with claws
Fossorial
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