SIMPLIFIED LIST OF RECENT CLASSES AND ORDERS 20 



Class Subcl Order 

 INSECTA (Hexapoda) insects 

 Apterygota 



Protura proturans 



Thysanura silver-fish, bristle-tails, rock-jumpers 

 Entotrophi campodeids, japygids 

 Collembola springtails, snow-fleas 

 Exopterygota (Heterometabola) 

 Ephemerida mayflies 

 Odonata dragonflies, damselflies, mosquito-hawks, 



devil's-darning-needles, snake-doctors 

 Plecoptera stone-flies, salmonflies 

 Grylloblattoidea grylloblattids 

 Orthoptera (Saltatoria) grasshoppers, crickets, locusts, 



katydids, mole-crickets 

 Phasmidia walking-sticks, stick-insects, leaf-insects 

 Blattaria roaches, cockroaches, croton-bugs 

 Mantodea praying-mantis, soothsayers, mantids 

 Dermaptera earwigs 

 Embioptera embiids, webspinners 

 Isoptera termites, white-ants 

 Psocoptera (Corrodentia) psocids, book-lice, bark-lice, 



dust-lice 

 Zoraptera zorapterans 

 Mallophaga bird-lice, biting-lice 

 Thysanoptera thrips 

 Homoptera cicadas, leaf-hoppers, tree-hoppers, aphids, 



scale-insects, spittle-bugs, mealy-bugs, frog-spit, psylhds, 



lantern-flies, white-flies 

 Heteroptera bugs, bed-bugs 

 Anoplura sucking-lice, lice 

 Endopterygota {Holometabola) 



Neuroptera snake-flies, serpent-flies, lace-wings, ant-lions, 



dobson-flies, fish-flies, orl-flies 

 Mecoptera scorpion-flies 

 Trichoptera caddis-flies, trout-flies, case-flies 

 Lepidoptera butterflies, moths, skippers, blues, woolly-bears, 



caterpiflars, millers 

 Diptera flies, gnats, mosquitoes, midges, bots, maggots, 



punkies 

 Siphonaptera fleas, chigoes 

 Coleoptera beetles, weevils, fireflies, elaters, glow-worms, 



water-pennies, meal-worms, wire-worms, white-grubs 



