Across
- 2. Piercing-sucking beak tucked under the head in Hemiptera
- 4. Paired abdominal pincers prominent in earwigs
- 8. Forewings leathery at base and membranous at tip crossing in an X
- 9. The biological science of classifying and naming organisms
- 10. The three specialized body regions: head, thorax, and abdomen
- 13. Knobbed gyroscopic balancing organs replacing hindwings in Diptera
- 14. Most diverse insect order characterized by chewing jaws and elytra
Down
- 1. Microscopic hooks connecting front and hind wings in Hymenoptera
- 3. Leg type with enlarged muscular femora specialized for jumping
- 5. Armor-like hardened forewings meeting in a straight midline seam
- 6. Father of modern taxonomy who formalized binomial nomenclature
- 7. Order of butterflies and moths with scale-covered wings
- 8. Six-legged arthropod subphylum containing insects
- 11. Insect order containing true flies and mosquitoes meaning two wings
- 12. Uniformly leathery protective forewings found in Orthoptera