The Mosquito/Copepod Kit
A resource for Florida teachers and students.
The Mosquito/Copepod Kit
A resource for Florida teachers and students.
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Glossary
| Aquatic | Living or occurring in water |
| Arthropoda | A phylum within the animal kingdom. It includes shrimp, lobster, crayfish, millipedes, centipedes, spiders, insects and others. Arthropoda have a segmented body with a hard outer skeleton (exoskeleton). Usually the segments are grouped in two or three body regions. The body has a bilateral symmetry and it has paired segmented appendages |
| Carnivore | An organism that captures and consumes animals |
| Complete metamorphosis | A type of development consisting of four distinct stages; egg, larvae, pupa and adult |
| Copepodite | Last immature stage of the copepod life cycle. There are usually 6 copepodite stages, the last of which is the adult |
| Cuticle | The hard external covering of insects and other arthropods |
| Emergence | The process of the adult insect leaving the pupal case or the last nymphal skin |
| Exoskeleton | A skeleton or supporting structure on the outside of the body. Present in all members of the Arthropoda |
| Gravid | Carrying offspring |
| Instar | The insect between two successive molts. The first instar is the larva which hatches from the egg |
| Larva | The immature stage between egg and pupa of insects with a complete metamorphosis |
| Molt | The process of shedding the exoskeleton. To shed the exoskeleton |
| Nauplius | A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body |
| Phylum | The second highest classification level of living things. It occurs between the kingdom level (the highest) and the class level (the next lowest) |
| Pupa | The stage between larva and adult in insect with a complete metamorphosis. It is a non feeding and usually inactive stage |
| Siphon | Air tube which mosquito larvae use as a snorkel to breathe air |
| Terrestrial | Living or occurring in land |