MCQs of Biology – Insecta

Which of the following classes has largest number of animals?

In Arthropoda, head and thorax are often fused to form cephalothorax, but in which one of the following classes, is the body divided into head, thorax and abdomen?

Diagnostic feature of insects is:

Which of the following belongs to the phylum Arthropoda?

What is the generic name of silverfish:

Which of the following belongs to the class insecta:

Which of the following is apterogote insect:

Honeybee, ant and termite , all are:

Which of the following is an insect:

Which is not a member of the class insecta?

The insect, which lays eggs ion water, is:

Insects have blood which:

Malpighian tubules are:

Phyllium is called as the leaf insect because it:

A fixed number of body segments and legs occur in:

It lives under water for upto three yeas as ‘nymph’ before emerging as a flying insect .Fossil of this insect dating back about 300 million years have been found:

What is common between cockroach, scorpion and centipede?

The exoskeleton of insects is made up of:

what is similarity between cockroach and housefly?

Common characteristics of cockroach, housefly and mosquito are:

The modification of second pair of wings into halters or balances is the characteristic of:

Glow-worm is a/an:

The first animals to fly were :

Which one is a tracheate group :

A larval stage occurs in the life history of all members of group:

Centrolecithal eggs are characteristic of:

Some insects feed on fluid using secialized mouthparts for piercing and sucking, as for example:

Butterflies belong to the order:

Siphoning type of mouthparts occurs in:

In the butterfly the long coiled siphoning tube is derived from:

Mouthparts of a butterfly are of type :

Haemoglobin is found in the body fluid of:

Common feature between housefly and honeybee is:

What is common between a moth, a frog and a mosquito?

Insectes excrete nitrogen as: