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Nature Portfolio - systematic catalogue of insect photos

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to see all library images available
for that group of insects

ORDER THYSANURA	bristletails, silverfish, firebrats
ORDER EPHEMEROPTERA Family Ephemeridae	mayflies
ORDER ODONATA Family Calopterygidae Family Lestidae Family Coenagrionidae Family Aeshnidae Family Gomphidae Family Cordulegastridae Family Corduliidae Family Libellulidae	demoiselles spread-winged damselflies, emerald damselflies red and blue damselflies, narrow-winged damselflies hawkers, darners club-tailed dragonflies golden-ringed dragonflies, biddies emerald dragonflies, green-eyed skimmers chasers, skimmers, darters
ORDER ORTHOPTERA Family Acrididae Family Tettigoniidae Family Gryllidae	grasshoppers, short-horned grasshoppers, locusts coneheads, bush-crickets, katydids, long-horned grasshoppers true crickets
ORDER PHASMATOPTERA Family Phasmatidae	stick insects, walking sticks, leaf insects
ORDER DICTYOPTERA Family Ectobiidae Family Mantidae	cockroaches praying mantises
ORDER HEMIPTERA Family Acanthosomatidae Family Pentatomidae Family Coreidae Family Pyrrhochoridae Family Lygaeidae Family Reduviidae Family Miridae Family Notonectidae Family Gerridae Family Cicadidae Family Aphrophoridae Family Cicadellidae Family Aphididae Family Aleyrodidae	shield bugs stink bugs squash bugs, ground bugs, chinch bugs, seed bugs fire bugs ground bugs assassin bugs capsid bugs, plant bugs backswimmers, water boatmen pond skaters cicadas froghoppers, planthoppers, spittlebugs, cuckoo spit leafhoppers aphids, greenfly, blackfly whitefly
ORDER NEUROPTERA Family Myrmeleonidae Family Ascalaphidae Family Nemopteridae Family Chrysopidae Family Sialidae	ant-lions butterfly-lions thread lacewings green lacewings alderflies
ORDER MEGALOPTERA Family Corydalidae	dobsonflies
ORDER MECOPTERA Family Panorpidae	scorpion flies
ORDER LEPIDOPTERA Family Hepialidae Family Cossidae Family Zygaenidae Family Limacodidae Family Psychidae Family Sesiidae Family Lasiocampidae Family Drepanidae Family Thyatiridae Family Geometridae Family Saturniidae Family Castniidae Family Sphingidae Family Arctiidae Family Ctenuchidae Family Nolidae Family Notodontidae Family Noctuidae	swift moths carpenter moths burnet moths festoons bagworms clearwings eggars hook-tips lutestrings geometers silk moths sun moths hawk-moths tiger moths ctenuchid moths webworms prominents noctuids
Family Adelidae Family Batrachedridae Family Blastobasidae Family Chimabachidae Family Coleophoridae Family Crambidae Family Elachistidae Family Epermeniidae Family Eriocraniidae Family Ethmiidae Family Gelechiidae Family Glyphipterigidae Family Gracillariidae Family Momphidae Family Nepticulidae Family Oecophoridae Family Plutellidae Family Pterophoridae Family Pyralidae Family Tineidae Family Tortricidae Family Yponomeutidae Family Ypsolophidae	longhorn moths micro-moths micro-moths micro-moths casebearer moths micro-moths micro-moths micro-moths micro-moths micro-moths micro-moths micro-moths leaf-miner moths micro-moths micro-moths micro-moths micro-moths plume moths grass moths, snout moths clothes moths tortrix moths small ermine moths micro-moths
Family Papilionidae Family Pieridae Family Lycaenidae Family Libytheidae Family Riodinidae (Nemeobiidae) Family Danaidae Family Nymphalidae Family Satyridae Family Hesperidae	swallowtails, apollos, festoons whites, yellows, orange-tips blues, coppers, hairstreaks snout butterflies metalmarks, bee butterflies monarchs, milkweeds emperors, admirals, fritillaries browns skippers
ORDER TRICHOPTERA Family Leptoceridae	long-horn caddis flies
ORDER DIPTERA Family Tipulidae Family Culicidae Family Bibionidae Family Rhagionidae Family Tabanidae Family Bombyliidae Family Asilidae Family Empidae Family Therevidae Family Syrphidae Family Coelopidae Family Tachinidae Family Calliphoridae Family Muscidae Family Scathophagidae	crane-flies, daddy-long-legs mosquitos St Mark's flies snipe flies horse flies, deer flies bee-flies robber flies empid flies stiletto flies hover-flies, syrphid flies, flower flies kelp flies tachinid flies blow flies, bluebottles, cluster flies, greenbottles face flies, house flies, muscid flies, stable flies dung flies
ORDER HYMENOPTERA Family Tenthredinidae Family Cynipidae Family Gasteruptiidae Family Ichneumonidae Family Mutillidae Family Formicidae Family Sphecidae Family Pompilidae Family Vespidae Family Megachilidae Family Xylocopidae Family Apidae	sawflies gall wasps parasitic wasps, gasteruptiids ichneumon flies, ichneumon wasps velvet ants ants digger wasps, sand wasps spider-hunting wasps, social wasps, yellowjackets, hornets leaf-cutter bees, leafcutting bees carpenter bees bumblebees, honey bees
ORDER COLEOPTERA Family Buprestidae Family Cantharidae Family Carabidae Family Cerambycidae Family Chrysomelidae Family Cicindelidae Family Cieridae Family Coccinellidae Family Curculionoidae Family Elateridae Family Geotrupidae Family Gyrinidae Family Lampyridae Family Lucanidae Family Meloidae Family Oedemeridae Family Pyrochroidae Family Scarabaeidae Family Scolytidae Family Staphylinidae Family Tenebrionidae	jewel beetles, metallic wood-boring beetles soldier beetles ground beetles longhorn beetles leaf beetles tiger beetles checkered beetles ladybirds, ladybeetles, ladybugs weevils click beetles dor beetles whirligig beetles glow-worms stag beetles oil beetles false blister beetles cardinal beetles chafers, dung beetles, scarabs bark beetles rove beetles darkling beetles, tenebrionids

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