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Nature Portfolio - systematic catalogue of insect photos
click on family name or thumbnail to see all library images available for that group of insects
ORDER THYSANURA |
bristletails, silverfish, firebrats |
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ORDER EPHEMEROPTERA Family Ephemeridae |
mayflies |
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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 |
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ORDER ORTHOPTERA Family Acrididae Family Tettigoniidae Family Gryllidae |
grasshoppers, short-horned grasshoppers, locusts coneheads, bush-crickets, katydids, long-horned grasshoppers true crickets |
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ORDER PHASMATOPTERA Family Phasmatidae |
stick insects, walking sticks, leaf insects |
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ORDER DICTYOPTERA Family Ectobiidae Family Mantidae |
cockroaches praying mantises |
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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 |
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ORDER NEUROPTERA Family Myrmeleonidae Family Ascalaphidae Family Nemopteridae Family Chrysopidae Family Sialidae |
ant-lions butterfly-lions thread lacewings green lacewings alderflies |
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ORDER MEGALOPTERA Family Corydalidae |
dobsonflies |
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ORDER MECOPTERA Family Panorpidae |
scorpion flies |
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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 |
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Family Tineidae Family Tortricidae Family Incurvariidae Family Pyralidae Family Cochylidae Family Ethmiidae Family Crambidae Family Coleophoridae Family Pterophoridae Family Yponomeutidae |
clothes moths tortrix moths micro-moths grass moths, snout moths micro-moths micro-moths micro-moths casebearer moths plume moths small ermine moths |
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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 |
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ORDER TRICHOPTERA Family Leptoceridae |
long-horn caddis flies |
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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 |
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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 |
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ORDER COLEOPTERA Family Carabidae Family Cicindelidae Family Gyrinidae Family Scarabaeidae Family Lucanidae Family Geotrupidae Family Buprestidae Family Elateridae Family Cantharidae Family Lampyridae Family Tenebrionidae Family Oedemeridae Family Pyrochroidae Family Coccinellidae Family Cerambycidae Family Chrysomelidae Family Curculionoidae Family Scolytidae Family Staphylinidae Family Cieridae |
ground beetles tiger beetles whirligig beetles chafers, dung beetles, scarabs stag beetles dor beetles jewel beetles, metallic wood-boring beetles click beetles soldier beetles glow-worms darkling beetles, tenebrionids false blister beetles cardinal beetles ladybirds, ladybeetles, ladybugs longhorn beetles leaf beetles weevils bark beetles rove beetles checkered beetles |
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