Aquatic Insects - Orders With Aquatic or Semi-aquatic Species

Orders With Aquatic or Semi-aquatic Species

  • Collembola - springtails (which are not technically insects, but are closely related)
  • Ephemeroptera - mayflies
  • Odonata - dragonflies and damselflies
  • Plecoptera - stoneflies
  • Hemiptera - true bugs
  • Megaloptera - alderflies, fishflies, and dobsonflies
  • Neuroptera - lacewings
  • Coleoptera - beetles Beetles of the genus Helichus are the only insects known where the larvae are land-based and the adults live in water.
  • Hymenoptera - ants (e.g. Polyrhachis sokolova) and wasps
  • Diptera - flies
  • Mecoptera - scorpionflies
  • Lepidoptera - moths
  • Trichoptera - caddisflies

Read more about this topic:  Aquatic Insects

Famous quotes containing the words orders and/or species:

    “The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy.—Take of common sense quantum sufficit, add a little application to the rules and orders of the House, throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness, and elegancy of style.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.”
    —Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)