Claire Weiss' Online Dicotomous Insect Identification Key
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Key to Order

 
 



Which better describes your insect?



 
 

forewings: no venation, strongly scleritized, meet  at a midline over the abdomen when at rest

antennae: not more than 11 segments, often clubbed

 forewings: veined extensively
 

antennae: not clubbed, sometimes filiform, often with more than 11 segments

 

Examples of insects these characteristics             Examples of insects with these characteristics
 
 
 

What are wings?

What are antennae?














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