Welcome to OPIC, The Online Photo Insect Collection created by Tim Salazar and Dave Gross of Pueblo, Colorado.

-------------------------------------Hexapoda------------------------------------- key: Insecta - Pterygota - Neoptera - Hempiteroid - Endopterygota Complete Classifcations
key				Sample Picture	Common Name	Order	Info
					Springtails	Collembola glue peg
					Silverfish, Firebrats (6)	Thysanura tassel - tail	Small, wingless, fast running. Flattened body with scales. Thread like antennae. Ten segmented abdomen.
					Mayflies (2)	Ephemeroptera living a day - wings	Single pair of large triangular wings, some have a pair of smaller rounded hind wings 2 or 3 filamentlike tails usually twice as long as their abdomen.
					Dragonflies, Damselflies (9)	Odonata Odonto - Stomata toothed - mouth	Large compound eyes. Elongated abdomen Two pairs of  membranous wings. Aquatic naiads are jet propelled and often have an extendable jaw allowing them to catching prey some distance away.
					Stoneflies	Plecoptera folded - wings
					Earwigs (2)	Dermaptera skin - wings	Characterized by short, hardened wing covers, elongated flattened body, chewing mouthparts, pincerlike abdominal cerci, and an incomplete metamorphosis.
					Grasshoppers, Katydids, Crickets (15)	Orthoptera straight - wings	Incomplete metamorphosis. Thread-like antennae. Chewing mouthparts. Enlarged hindlegs for jumping.
					Mantids, Cockroaches, Termites (1)	Dictyoptera two cell wings
					Stick / leaf Insects	Phasmida
					Lice or Louse	Phthiraptera
					True Bugs, Aphids, Cicadas, Leafhoppers (52)	Hemiptera half - wings	Mouthparts modified from mandibles to form two pairs of needle-like stylets for sucking and piercing.
					Lacewings, Antlions (10)	Neuroptera nerve - wings	Many veins in 4 transparent wings. Life stages:  egg, larva, pupa, and winged adult.
					Beetles (65)	Coleoptera sheath - wings	Characterized by hard front wings that meet in a straight line in the middle of the back, chewing mouthparts, and a complete metamorphosis.
					Bees, Wasps, Ants (26)	Hymenoptera membrane - wings	(Winged forms of ants, wasps and bees) with 2 pair of membranous wings.
					Scorpion flies	Mecoptera long - wings
					Fleas	Siphonaptera tube or siphon - no wings
					True Flies, Gnats, Mosquitoes (26)	Diptera two - wings.	Characterized by a single pair of membranous wings, a pair of halters, instead of the hind wings, sucking mouthparts, and a complete metamorphosis.
					Caddisflies (1)	Trichoptera hairy - wings
					Butterflies, Moths (64)	Lepidoptera scale - wings	Life cycle: Egg, Larva (caterpillar), Pupa (cocoon), Adult (butterfly or moth).

Myriapoda
	Common name	Class	Info
	Centipede (1)	Chilopoda
	Millipedes	Diplopoda

Crustacea
	Common name	Order	Info
	Sow bugs, Pill bugs (rollie-pollies) (4)	Isopoda Equal -  legs

Email:  tim300cx5@yahoo.com
All Pictures by Tim Salazar (Sony DSC-S85 digital camera) unless stated.
Remember!  2002 <sup>©

Note: All pictures taken in Pueblo, Colorado and surrounding areas.</sup>

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Other insects pictures:
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Special thanks to:
Dave Gross
"Shelley Penner" Home Page  --> http://members.shaw.ca/shyannis-lair/

About OPIC

May 2002, like most people I wasn't interested in bugs and considered them pests.  One night I was reading the manual for my newly purchased digital camera and I saw a big wolf spider crawling on the wall, my first instinct was to kill him, but eager to take some pictures I thought I'd get a picture first.  After taking a few pictures he ran of f and escaped.  Looking at the pictures, after loading them on my computer, I noticed that it seemed like he had more than two eyes.  I did some research on spiders and found that spiders have 6-8 eyes. I never knew this and it sparked my interest in bugs.  The next day I saw the wolf spider again, this time I captured him to take some better pictures.  Taking good pictures of a spider turned out to be harder than I thought.  It was difficult to get him to stay still for a good picture, and after several escape attempts by the spider, I thought there must be a better way.  I tried confine his space, cooling him down in the refrigerator, and small doses of rubbing alcohol.  Finally I found that cigarette smoke slowed him down and left him conscious so his legs didn't curl up under him, and got some good pictures.   Trying to get even better pictures I gave him more and more smoke until it looked like he died, but the next day he was alive and well, apparently none the worse from the experience.  (to be continued......)

How to use this site:
OPIC contains animals contained in the Phylum Arthropoda.  The front page is broken into the main Classes, then broken into common Orders. (Click on the common name to jump to the "Order pages").  On the Order pages click on image for a full size view (zoom).

Color code: Typically Suborders colored dark hues (drk blue, drk red, drk grn, drk pur, ..) if hues still available superfamilies shift hue from containing suborder, branches will then vary in lightness and then saturation towards gray, and if needed for further branches hues will vary again.

Order

!!! new table system will be tables in tables to better reflect the classification system !!!

Suborder - infraorder - Superfamily - Family -     Most insects classified just to the family, since I found it very difficult to                                                                                  classify them further.

Opic's future:
Summer 1992: This site needs a lot of work, but for the summer I'm just trying to get photos. This winter I will work more on the HTML.

Summer 1993: Started to refine the HTML and classify more insect. I plan on taking more pictures to fill in my collection.  I now have a 50x - 200x hand held microscope, and hope to get pictures of some of the insects that were to small for the camera. 

To be add later:
Glossary
Common name index
Identification section
How to photograph
Maybe insect flash cards
animations and movies (space permitting)

List of References:

• Lorus & Margery Milne, 1980, National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects & Spiders, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, NY
• Dr. Ross H. Arnett, Jr., & Dr. Richard L. Jacques, Jr., 1981, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Insects, Simon & Schuster Inc., New York, NY
• Lester A. Swan & Charles S. Papp, 1972, The Common Insects of North America, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London
• Richard E. White, 1983, A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
• David Carter, 1992, Butterflies & Moths, Dorling Kindersley Ltd., London
• J. V. Ward & B. C. Kondratieff, 1992, An Illustrated Guide to the Mountain Stream Insects of Colorado, University Press of Colorado, Niwot, CO
• W. Cranshaw, D. Letherman, & B. Kondratieff, 1993, Insects that Feed on Colorado Trees And Shrubs, Bulletin 506A, Colorado State University Cooperative Extension, Fort Collins, CO
• Donald J. Borror, Dwight M. Delong, Charles A. Triplehorn, 1976, An Introdution to the Study of Insects, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York+..

Internet References:

• Tree of Life Web Project
• http://cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/albumframes/orderframe.html
• http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/insects/index.htm
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• Insects on the Web
• Insects Scientific Page
• Hania's and Hans' Garden Safari with lots of pictures
• Colorado State Cooperative Extension Insect Publications Menu
• Entomology Index Checklists
• UNL Entomology - Images of Insects & Their Relatives

Geocities Contacts to Insects:

• Colin L. Miller

Copyright 2002    Tim Salazar

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