Insectae

Arthropoda

• Ant – Formicine

• Fire ant – Solenopsis mandibularis

Order: Hymenoptera (which includes ants, bees, and wasps)

Phylum: Arthropoda (which includes insects, spiders, and crustaceans)

• Butterfly – Pieridine/Pierine

Order: Lepidoptera

• Fly – Dipterous

Order: Diptera, which means “two wings”.

Hymenoptera ( includes ants, wasps, and sawflies)

• Western honey bee – Apis mellifera

Superfamily: Apoidea  

Phthiraptera

• Louse – Pediculine

Infraorder Phthiraptera (which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insects.)

• Worm – Vermian

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