Aragon > Naturräume in Aragon > Fauna
This order includes species such as bees, wasps, and ants.
The honeybee forms differentiated groups in social castes: the queen, the drones and the workers.
They live in highly organized societies and inhabit natural or artificial hives, in which they form honeycombs with hexagonal cells where they store honey, pollen and nectar, which serve to feed the larvae.
wasps are hymenopterans of the vespid family, which form nests like small combs, on the ground, on branches and even on the projections of the buildings.
They feed on the nectar of flowers and fruit juices.
With their sting they can produce very painful stings.
There are wasps that lay their eggs in the larvae of other insects.
The ichneumon wasp bores into wood with its long, sharp ovipositor and lays its eggs in larvae that it locates inside the wood.
The bumblebee is a large, buzzing insect that forms colonies in holes and burrows.
Ants, like honey bees, form permanent societies of a complicated organization, composed of a fertile female or queen dedicated to laying eggs, and a large number of workers and soldiers.
Ants chew food and store it in the "social" stomach, which they use to feed larvae and other ants.
They have highly developed antennae sensory organs.
Its defensive weapon is a jet of formic acid that it maintains in a gland.
Ants generally make nests underground with a population of many thousands of individuals.
The fertile female or queen is dedicated to laying eggs and the larvae that hatch from them weave a cocoon from which the adult insect emerges.
The anthill is composed of many chambers for the development of the young.
Periodically winged males and females are born that leave the ant hills to form new colonies.
Typical species:
A small presentation of the diversity of the insects could be the following:
WITHOUT WINGS or Apteros | |
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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 |
Malophagos | Chewing mouthpieces. Without wings. Places of birds and mammals. Lice of chickens. |
Anopluros | Mouth filler-suctora. Without wings. Mammals' parts. Head louse. |
Neuropteros | Chewing mouth. Four membranous wings with numerous nerviations. Lion ant. |
Coleoptera | Chewing 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.
A small list of species in Aragon would be the following:
Vertebrates | Invertebrates |
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MammalsBirdsReptilesAmphibiansFishes |
MetazoansProtozoa |
images about the fauna in Aragon. photographs on invertebrates. beneficial animals for agriculture. |