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Arthropods to Paint Online

Sub-phylum	Class	Number of Antennae	Number of Legs	Number of Body Parts	Examples
Chelicerates	Arachnids	None	4 pairs 8	2 (cephalothorax and abdomen)	Spiders, scorpions, mites, ticks
	Meristomata	None	5 pairs 10	2 (head and thorax)	Horseshoe crabs
.	Crustaceans	4 2 pairs	8 or more	It varies	Lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, crabs, copepods, woodlice, and barnacles
Uniramians	Insects	1 pair (2)	3 pairs (6)	3 (head, thorax,and abdomen)	Butterflies, beetles, ants, bees, roaches, flies, dragonflies, cicadas, grasshoppers
	Myriapods	1 pair (2)	18 or more	2 (head and a segmented trunk)	Centipedes, millipedes

Some Arthropods to Paint Online:

Ant Ants are social insects.

Arachnids Arachnids have eight jointed legs, an exoskeleton, and a two-part body. Spiders, scorpions, and ticks are arachnids.

Assassin Bug Assassin bugs are insects that eat other insects.

Bee Bees are flying, social insects that live in a hive.

Black Widow Spider A very poisonous spider with a distinctive red hourglass marking.

Blue Morpho Butterfly A brilliant blue butterfly from rainforests of South and Central America.

Butterflies and Moths Printouts about these beautiful flying insects.

Butterfly Life Cycle See how a butterfly starts out as an egg, hatches into a caterpillar, becomes a pupa, then emerges as a fully-grown adult.

Copepod Copepods are tiny crustaceans from fresh and salt water.

Crab A crab is an animal with a shell. It has eyes on stalks on its head.

Crayfish Freshwater crustaceans with four pairs of walking legs.

Crustaceans Crustaceans are animals with a hard exoskeleton, jointed legs, and a segmented body.

Dragonfly The dragonfly is a flying insect with a long abdomen.

Grasshopper Grasshoppers are insects that can hop, walk, and fly. There are about 10,000 different species of grasshoppers.

Harlequin Bug This small agricultural pest is brightly-colored.

Hermit Crab Hermit crabs are crabs that lack a hard shell; they use a discarded shell for protection.

Horseshoe Crab The horseshoe crab is a hard-shelled animal that lives in warm coastal waters on the sea floor.

Insects Insects have a hard exoskeleton, a three-part body, and six legs.

Jumping Bean Moth A brown moth that spends its larval stage inside a seed pod.

Ladybug Tiny flying insects that eat garden pests.

Lobster A hard-shelled marine invertebrate with 10 jointed legs.

Luna Moth A green moth with long hindwing tails and distinctive eyespots.

Morpho Butterfly A brilliant blue butterfly from rainforests of South and Central America.

Mosquito A small flying insect that is a carrier of disease.

Oregon Silverspot Butterfly A brown and orange butterfly that lives in humid coastal salt-spray meadows and fields in the Pacific Northwest of the USA.

Painted Lady Butterfly A very widespread and common butterfly.

Painted Lady Butterfly Life Cycle The life cycle of this common butterfly.

Plankton Plankton are tiny organisms that float in the seas and other bodies of water. Many zooplankton are crustaceans.

Pond Skater A bug that walks on water. It is also called the water strider.

Queen Alexandra's Birdwing Butterfly Queen Alexandra's Birdwing is the biggest butterfly in the world. Its wingspan is about 1 foot ( 30 cm) wide.

Scorpion A venomous arachnid with a large stinger on its tail.

Shrimp Shrimp are small, bottom-dwelling crustaceans with a translucent exoskeleton.

Silkworm The silkworm moth is an insect (not a worm) that produces a silken cocoon. This cocoon is harvested to make silk thread.

Spider Spiders have eight legs.

Tarantula A tarantula is a large, hairy spider.

Trilobite Trilobites are extinct marine arthropods that lived from about 540 to 245 million years ago.

Ulysses Butterfly The Ulysses is a spectacular swallowtail butterfly from Australia.

Uniramians Uniramians are a group that include insects, centipedes, millipedes, and their relatives.

Vinegarroon A whip scorpion, an arachnid that emits a vinegar-like mist.

Walkingstick The Walkingstick (also called the laboratory stick insect) is a long, slow-moving, plant-eating insect that looks like a twig.

Wasp Wasps are insects with 2 pairs of wings and strong jaws. Many wasps sting.

Water Strider A bug that walks on water.

Yellow Jacket A yellow jacket is a type of social wasp, a flying, stinging insect.

Zebra Longwing Butterfly The Zebra Longwing is a small, black-and-yellow striped butterfly from warm areas.

Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly The Zebra Swallowtail butterfly is a common butterfly with distinctive black and white markings.

Zooplankton Zooplankton are tiny animals that float in the seas and other bodies of water. Many zooplankton are marine crustaceans.

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