ARTHROPODS

6 Legs 8 Legs

No castes Has castes

Does not No eyes

Hooked legs Produces honey
produce honey

Cannot cling to Can cling to

All have wings Not all have wings
thick hair thick hair Apis sp. Ixodes sp.

Has eyes
Vespa sp. Solenopsis sp.
Pediculus Pediculus pubis
humanus capitis Has pincers
No pincers
Unhooked legs
Has telson No telson
Hindlegs are not
Hindlegs are enlarged
enlarged
Sarcoptes
Centruroides sp. Latrodectus sp.
scabiei
Infects dogs Infects humans No proboscis

Head is concealed
under pronotum Head is exposed Has proboscis
Ctenocephalides
canis Pulex irritans
Capable of flight Flightless

Wings are not fully

Reddish brown Pronotum with dark membranous Cimex sp.
pronotum bands

Triatoma sp.
Periplaneta americana Blatella germanica

Secretes blistering Does not secrete

agents blistering agents

Epicauta sp. Tribolium sp.

Wings are fully

membranous

Does not bite humans

Bites humans

Little to no hair Hairy Prefers elevated

regions

Prefers temperate
Pattern on legs Wings do not Wings have regions
have hair hair
Acronicta sp.

Gray Blue
Aedes aegypti abdomen abdomen
Tabanus sp. Phlebotonus sp.

No pattern on Musca
Calliphora sp.
legs domestica

White pattern Intricate wing

on wings venation

Anopheles sp. Glossina sp.