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Phalangiidae, family Phalangiidae
a family of Phalangida
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Argiopidae, family Argiopidae, orb-weaver
spiders that spin orb webs; cosmopolitan in distribution
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Theridiidae, family Theridiidae
a family of comb-footed spiders
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Theraphosidae, family Theraphosidae
large tropical spiders; tarantulas
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Lycosidae, family Lycosidae
wolf spiders
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Ctenizidae, family Ctenizidae
large burrowing spiders
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Ixodidae, family Ixodidae
hard ticks
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Argasidae, family Argasidae
soft ticks
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Acaridae, family Acaridae
mites
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Trombidiidae, family Trombidiidae
mites
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Trombiculidae, family Trombiculidae
mites
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Sarcoptidae, family Sarcoptidae
small whitish mites
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Tetranychidae, family Tetranychidae
plant-feeding mites
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Scutigeridae, family Scutigeridae
a family of Chilopoda
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Geophilidae, family Geophilidae
small extremely elongate centipedes that live in earth
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Limulidae, family Limulidae
horseshoe crabs
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Cancridae, family Cancridae
many of the best known edible crabs
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Portunidae, family Portunidae
swimming crabs
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Pinnotheridae, family Pinnotheridae
tiny soft-bodied crabs
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Lithodidae, family Lithodidae
deep-sea crabs of cold waters
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Majidae, family Majidae
spider crabs
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Homaridae, family Homaridae
large-clawed lobsters
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Nephropsidae, family Nephropsidae
in some classifications coextensive with the Homaridae
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Palinuridae, family Palinuridae
spiny lobsters
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Astacidae, Astacura, family Astacidae
crayfish
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Paguridae, family Paguridae
hermit crabs
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Crangonidae, family Crangonidae
shrimps
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Palaemonidae, family Palaemonidae
prawns
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Peneidae, family Peneidae
tropical prawns
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Mysidae, family Mysidae
small shrimp-like crustaceans
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Squillidae, family Squillidae
crustaceans that burrow in mud or under stones in shallow water along the seashore
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Armadillidiidae, family Armadillidiidae
pill bugs
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Oniscidae, family Oniscidae
a family of Isopoda
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Porcellionidae, family Porcellionidae
sow bugs
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Orchestiidae, family Orchestiidae
beach fleas
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Triopidae, family Triopidae
a family of Notostraca
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Balanidae, family Balanidae
stalkless barnacles
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Lepadidae, family Lepadidae
goose barnacles
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Peripatidae, family Peripatidae
a family of Onychophora
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Peripatopsidae, family Peripatopsidae
a family of Onychophora
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Cicindelidae, family Cicindelidae
tiger beetles
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Coccinellidae, family Coccinellidae
the ladybugs
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Carabidae, family Carabidae
ground beetles
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Lampyridae, family Lampyridae
fireflies
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Cerambycidae, family Cerambycidae
long-horned beetles
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Chrysomelidae, family Chrysomelidae
leaf beetles
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Dermestidae, family Dermestidae
carpet beetles
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Cleridae, family Cleridae
beetles that prey on other insects
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Lamellicornia, superfamily Lamellicornia
scarabaeid beetles and stag beetles
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Scarabaeidae, family Scarabaeidae
scarab or dung beetles
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Melolonthidae, subfamily Melolonthidae
considered a separate family in some classification systems
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Cetoniidae, subfamily Cetoniidae
considered a separate family in some classification systems
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Lucanidae, family Lucanidae
stag beetles
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Elateridae, family Elateridae
click beetles and certain fireflies
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Dytiscidae, family Dytiscidae
water beetles
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Gyrinidae, family Gyrinidae
whirligig beetles
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Anobiidae, family Anobiidae
deathwatch beetles
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Curculionidae, family Curculionidae
true weevils: snout beetles
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Meloidae, family Meloidae
blister beetles
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Ipidae, Scolytidae, family Ipidae, family Scolytidae
large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees
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Staphylinidae, family Staphylinidae
rove beetles
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Tenebrionidae, family Tenebrionidae
a family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms
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Bruchidae, family Bruchidae
seed beetles
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Pediculidae, family Pediculidae
true lice: human lice and related forms
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Phthiriidae, family Phthiriidae
crab lice
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Pulicidae, family Pulicidae
many common fleas attacking humans and domestic animals
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Cecidomyidae, family Cecidomyidae
gall midges
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Muscoidea, superfamily Muscoidea
two-winged flies especially the families: Muscidae; Gasterophilidae; Calliphoridae; Tachinidae
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Muscidae, family Muscidae
two-winged flies especially the housefly
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Glossinidae, family Glossinidae
flies closely related to the Muscidae: tsetse flies
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Calliphoridae, family Calliphoridae
blowflies
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Tachinidae, family Tachinidae
parasites on other insects
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Gasterophilidae, family Gasterophilidae
horse botflies
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Cuterebridae, family Cuterebridae
New World botflies
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Hypodermatidae, Oestridae, family Hypodermatidae, family Oestridae
warble flies
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Tabanidae, family Tabanidae
horseflies
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Bombyliidae, family Bombyliidae
bee flies
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Asilidae, family Asilidae
robber flies
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Trephritidae, Trypetidae, family Trephritidae, family Trypetidae
fruit flies; some leaf miners
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Drosophilidae, family Drosophilidae
fruit flies
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Hippoboscidae, family Hippoboscidae
winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies
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Culicidae, family Culicidae
mosquitoes
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Ceratopogonidae, family Ceratopogonidae
biting midges; sand flies
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Chironomidae, family Chironomidae
midges
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Mycetophilidae, family Mycetophylidae
fungus gnats
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Psychodidae, family Psychodidae
very small two-winged flies with hairy wings that develop in moss and damp vegetable matter: sand flies
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Sciaridae, family Sciaridae
fungus gnats
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Tipulidae, family Tipulidae
crane flies
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Simuliidae, family Simuliidae
blackflies and sand flies
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Apoidea, superfamily Apoidea
bees
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Apidae, family Apidae
honeybees; carpenter bees; bumblebees
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Andrenidae, family Andrenidae
a large family of solitary short-tongued bees most of which burrow in the ground
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Halictidae, family Halictidae
a family of small solitary bees; many are valuable pollinators for agriculture
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Megachilidae, family Megachilidae
leaf-cutting and mason bees
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Vespidae, family Vespidae
an arthropod family of the order Hymenoptera including: yellow jackets; hornets; mason wasps
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Sphecoidea, superfamily Sphecoidea
families Sphecidae and Stizidae
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Sphecidae, family Sphecidae
mud daubers; some digger wasps
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Stizidae, family Stizidae
cicada killers
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Cynipidae, family Cynipidae
a family of Hymenoptera
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Chalcidae, Chalcididae, family Chalcidae, family Chalcididae
an arthropod family including: chalcidflies
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Ichneumonidae, family Ichneumonidae
ichneumon flies
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Tenthredinidae, family Tenthredinidae
sawflies
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Formicidae, family Formicidae
ants
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Dorylinae, subfamily Dorylinae
army ants
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Termitidae, family Termitidae
termites
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Rhinotermitidae, family Rhinotermitidae
large widely distributed family of termites of temperate to tropical regions
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Mastotermitidae, family Mastotermitidae
primitive termites
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Kalotermitidae, family Kalotermitidae
primitive termites of warm regions
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Acrididae, Locustidae, family Acrididae, family Locustidae
short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts
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Tettigoniidae, family Tettigoniidae
long-horned grasshoppers; katydids
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Stenopelmatidae, family Stenopelmatidae
long-horned grasshoppers
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Gryllidae, family Gryllidae
crickets
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Phasmatidae, Phasmidae, family Phasmatidae, family Phasmidae
stick insects
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Phillidae, Phyllidae, family Phillidae, family Phyllidae
leaf insects
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Blattidae, family Blattidae
domestic cockroaches
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Cryptocercidae, family Cryptocercidae
a family of Blattodea
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Manteidae, Mantidae, family Manteidae, family Mantidae
mantises
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Capsidae, Miridae, family Capsidae, family Miridae
leaf bugs
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Tingidae, family Tingidae
lace bugs
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Lygaeidae, family Lygaeidae
lygaeid bugs
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Coreidae, family Coreidae
squash bugs and leaf-footed bugs
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Cimicidae, family Cimicidae
wingless flat-bodied bloodsucking insects
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Notonectidae, family Notonectidae
aquatic carnivorous insects
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Belostomatidae, family Belostomatidae
water bugs
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Nepidae, family Nepidae
water scorpions
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Corixidae, family Corixidae
water bugs
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Gerridae, Gerrididae, family Gerridae, family Gerrididae
an arthropod family that includes water striders
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Reduviidae, family Reduviidae
assassin bugs
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Pyrrhocoridae, family Pyrrhocoridae
firebugs
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Aleyrodidae, family Aleyrodidae
whiteflies
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Coccoidea, superfamily Coccoidea
scale insects and mealybugs
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Coccidae, family Coccidae
scale insects
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Diaspididae, family Diaspididae
armored scales
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Dactylopiidae, family Dactylopiidae
cochineal insects
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Pseudococcidae, family Pseudococcidae
scalelike insects: mealybugs
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Aphidoidea, superfamily Aphidoidea
plant lice
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Aphididae, family Aphididae
small soft-bodied plant lice
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Adelgidae, family Adelgidae
plant lice
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Phylloxeridae, family Phylloxeridae
plant lice
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Chermidae, Psyllidae, family Chermidae, family Psyllidae
jumping plant lice
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Cicadidae, family Cicadidae
cicadas
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Cercopidae, family Cercopidae
froghoppers or spittlebugs
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Cicadellidae, family Cicadellidae
leafhoppers
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Jassidae, family Jassidae
family of small leafhoppers coextensive with the Cicadellidae and not distinguished from it in some classifications
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Membracidae, family Membracidae
plant hoppers: treehoppers
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Fulgoridae, family Fulgoridae
plant hoppers: lantern flies
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Psocidae, family Psocidae
a family of small soft-bodied insects that feed on decaying vegetation; related to booklice
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Atropidae, family Atropidae
booklice
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Ephemeridae, family Ephemeridae
mayflies
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Myrmeleontidae, family Myrmeleontidae
antlions
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Chrysopidae, family Chrysopidae
green lacewings
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Hemerobiidae, family Hemerobiidae
brown lacewings
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Corydalidae, family Corydalidae
dobsons
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Sialidae, family Sialidae
an arthropod family including: alderflies
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Raphidiidae, family Raphidiidae
a family of arthropods of the suborder Megaloptera, including snakeflies
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Mantispidae, family Mantispidae
mantispids
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Sisyridae, family Sisyridae
an arthropod family of the order Neuroptera that includes spongeflies
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Lepismatidae, family Lepismatidae
firebrats
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Machilidae, family Machilidae
jumping bristletails
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Thripidae, family Thripidae
thrips
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Forficulidae, family Forficulidae
typical earwigs
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Nymphalidae, family Nymphalidae
large beautifully colored butterflies
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Satyridae, family Satyridae
a widely distributed family of butterflies common near the edges of woods
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Danaidae, family Danaidae
small family of usually tropical butterflies: monarch butterflies
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Pieridae, family Pieridae
arthropod family including cabbage butterflies; sulphur butterflies
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Lycaenidae, family Lycaenidae
family of small usually brilliantly colored butterflies; males have short forelegs
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Tortricidae, family Tortricidae
leaf rollers and codling moths
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Lymantriidae, family Lymantriidae
tussock moths
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Geometridae, family Geometridae
measuring worms
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Pyralidae, Pyralididae, family Pyralidae, family Pyralididae
bee moths; corn borers; flour moths
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Tineoidea, superfamily Tineoidea
clothes moths; carpet moths; leaf miners
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Tineidae, family Tineidae
clothes moths
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Gracilariidae, Gracillariidae, family Gracilariidae
leaf miners
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Gelechiidae, family Gelechiidae
important economic pests
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Noctuidae, family Noctuidae
cutworms; armyworms
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Sphingidae, family Sphingidae
hawkmoths
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Bombycidae, family Bombycidae
Chinese silkworm moth
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Saturniidae, family Saturniidae
important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known
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Arctiidae, family Arctiidae
tiger moths
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Lasiocampidae, family Lasiocampidae
tent caterpillars; eggars; lappet moths
