Hemimetabolous Insect Orders is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the winged insect orders without a pupal stage, true bugs, grasshoppers, dragonflies, cockroaches, mantises and mayflies. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is an insect order with incomplete metamorphosis. It excludes the holometabolous orders. Members are placed by the classification their cited article gives, not by common name or appearance alone.
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Hemiptera (Wikipedia)
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Hemiptera (; from Ancient Greek hemipterus 'half-winged') is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising more than 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs.
Orthoptera (Wikipedia)
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Orthoptera (from Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós) 'straight' and πτερά (pterá) 'wings') is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera, grasshoppers,
Odonata (Wikipedia)
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Odonata is an order of predatory flying insects that includes the dragonflies and damselflies (as well as the Epiophlebia damsel-dragonflies).
Blattodea (Wikipedia)
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Blattodea is an order of insects that contains cockroaches and termites.
Wikipedia: Mantis
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Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families.
Wikipedia: Psocodea
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Psocodea is a taxonomic group of insects comprising the bark lice, book lice and parasitic lice.
Wikipedia: Notoptera
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Notoptera, also known as Xenonomia, is an order of insects belonging to Polyneoptera.
Earwig - Wikipedia
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Earwigs make up the insect order Dermaptera.
Zoraptera - Wikipedia
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Zoraptera is an order of insects, sometimes called angel insects or ground lice.
Thrips - Wikipedia
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Thrips (singular: thrips; order Thysanoptera), commonly known as thunderflies or thunderbugs, are minute (mostly 1 mm (0.04 in) long or less), slender insects with fringed wings and unique asymmetrical mouthparts.
Wikipedia: Mayfly
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Mayflies (also up-winged flies or up-wing flies, or drake-flies in the UK; shadflies or fishflies in northern U.S. and Canada) are aquatic insects belonging to the order Ephemeroptera.
Embioptera - Wikipedia
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The order Embioptera, commonly known as webspinners or footspinners, are a small group of mostly tropical and subtropical insects, classified under the subclass Pterygota.
Wikipedia: Phasmatodea
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The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or bug sticks.
Plecoptera - Wikipedia
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Plecoptera is an order of insects commonly known as stoneflies.
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