RECENT CLASSIFICATION OF ORDERS OF INSECTS

Compiled by Gary Parsons

Presented at seminar to Entomology Department 12 October 2015.

Class PROTURA Order PROTURA ……….. “proturans”

Class COLLEMBOLA Order COLLEMBOLA …. “collembolans”
Class DIPLURA Order DIPLURA …………. “diplurans”

Class INSECTA
Order ARCHAEOGNATHA …………………… “jumping bristletails”
Order ZYGENTOMA (= old Thysanura).. ”silverfish, firebrats”
Order EPHEMEROPTERA ……………………. “mayflies”
Order ODONATA ……………………………….. “dragonflies, damselflies”
Order ZORAPTERA …………………………….. “angel insects”
Order DERMAPTERA ………………………….. “earwigs”
Order PLECOPTERA ……………………………. “stoneflies”
Order ORTHOPTERA ………………………….. “grasshoppers, katydids, crickets”
Order NOTOPTERA …………………………….. “ ice crawlers, rock crawlers”
Includes: Suborders Grylloblattodea and Mantophasmatodea
Order EMBIIDINA ……………………………….. “webspinners”
Order PHASMATODEA ……………………….. “walking sticks”
Order MANTODEA ……………………………… “mantids”
Order BLATTODEA ……………………………… “cockroaches, termites”
Includes: Isoptera as Epifamily: Termitoidae
Order THYSANOPTERA ……………………….. “thrips”
Order HEMIPTERA ……………………………… “bugs, cicadas, hoppers, aphids, scales”
Includes: Homoptera as Suborders Auchenorrhyncha, Sternorrhyncha
Order PSOCODEA ……………………………….. “barklice, booklice, parasitic lice”
Includes: Phthiraptera, Mallophaga, Anoplura
Order HYMENOPTERA ……………………….. “sawflies, wasps, bees, ants”
Order RAPHIDIOPTERA ………………………. “snakeflies”
Order MEGALOPTERA ………………………… “alderflies, dobsonflies”
Order NEUROPTERA …………………………… “lacewings, antlions”
Order STREPSIPTERA ………………………….. “twisted-wing parasites”
Order COLEOPTERA ……………………………. “beetles”
Order TRICHOPTERA ………………………….. “caddisflies”
Order LEPIDOPTERA …………………………… “butterflies, moths”
Order SIPHONAPTERA ……………………….. “fleas”
Order MECOPTERA ……………………………. “scorpionflies”
Order DIPTERA ………………………………….. “flies”