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