Plasmids or stick insects. Insects Arthropods Invertebrates Animal Kingdom. Wildlife. Fauna Fauna. Natural Patrimony Aragonese. Aragon. Spain.

Plasmids or stick insects. Insects Arthropods Invertebrates Animal Kingdom. Wildlife. Fauna

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Stick insects and leaf insects may have wings or lack of them.

They have a chewing mouthpiece.

Stick insect 1
Stick insect 1.

There are about 2,000 species that inhabit temperate and tropical regions.

They feed on vegetables and when they are very abundant they can cause serious damage to the trees.

They are characterized by their great capacity to adapt to the environment, which allows them to hide or mimic, thanks to its varied shapes and color changes, some of them very difficult to discover.

Stick insect
Stick insect

Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis is incomplete.

Typical species:

Stick insect. 2.
Stick insect.

A small presentation of the diversity of the insects could be the following:

WITHOUT WINGS or Apteros
Proturos They are the most primitive insects.
Without wings or antennae.
Colembolos Sin alas.
A ventral organ allows them to take great leaps.
Tisanuros Tres apendices terminales
Lepisma or silverfish
Dipluros Two terminal appendices.
WITH WINGS
Ephemeroptera Rudimentary mouthpieces.
Two pairs of wings.
Aquatic larvae with gills.
Ephemeral
Plecoptera Incomplete metamorphosis
Aploembia
Odonates Chewing mouth.
Two pairs of large membranous wings.
Aquatic larvae.
Libelulas
Mantoids or mantids Incomplete metamorphosis
Mantis religiosa
Blactereos Mouthpiece masticator
Cockroach
Fasmideos Mouthpiece masticator
Insect stick
Dermapteros Mouth chewing.
Tongue at the end of the abdomen.
Earwigs.
Orthotics Mouth chewing.
Two pairs of wings, of which the first protects the second.
Cricket, Lobster
Isopters Mouth chewing.
Social organization similar to that of ants.
Termes or Termites
Hemiptera Superorder that includes heteropteros and homopteros.
Heteropteros Mouthpieces choppers-suctors.
Two pairs of wings, the first one in its anterior part.
Bedbug.
Homopteros Mouthpiece picador-suctor.
Two pairs of equal wings, which sometimes are missing.
Cicadas, aphids.
Hymenoptera Mouthpieces chewing or sucking.
Four membranous wings.
Bee, Wasp, Ant
MalophagosChewing mouthpieces.
Without wings.
Places of birds and mammals.
Lice of chickens.
AnoplurosMouth filler-suctora.
Without wings.
Mammals' parts.
Head louse.
NeuropterosChewing mouth.
Four membranous wings with numerous nerviations.
Lion ant.
ColeopteraChewing mouth pieces.
Two pairs of wings, the first very coro form a protective case.
Beetles, Fireflies.
Lepidoptera Mouthpieces transformed into suctor apparatus that is spirally wound.
Two pairs of membranous wings covered with scales.
Butterflies and moths.
Diptera Biting and sucking mouthpieces.
Just a pair of wings.
Fly, Mosquito, Tipula, Tabano

The SEA is realizing a complete Catalog of the Aragonese Entomofauna that has already been partially published, where 190 families have been inventoried with 3012 species.



Other information about fauna in Aragón:

A small list of species in Aragon would be the following:

Vertebrates Invertebrates

Mammals

Birds

Reptiles

Amphibians

Fishes

Metazoans

Protozoa

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