Attention! This site is under construction. Photographs are needed to represent all orders of insects, spiders and their kin. Please send photographs of live insects found in Mississippi and the southeastern USA to MIG with your entry form. Photomicrographs may also be sent of Springtails, mites and other very small arthropods. Thank you.

Eventually MIG will have links to pages for each represented order to help serve as a guide. If you want to help complete this guide, please send your photographs of insects, spiders and other arthropods. This is an opportunity for students and professionals alike to contribute their photographs toward an educational work of significance.

Insects (Class Insecta) are a major group of arthropods and the most diverse group of animals on the Earth, with over a million described species—more than half of all known living organisms — with estimates of undescribed species as high as 30 million, thus potentially representing over 90% of the differing life forms on the planet. Insects may be found in nearly all environments on the planet, although only a small number of species occur in the oceans, a habitat dominated by another arthropod group, the crustaceans. (Source: Wikipedia)

Protura	Protura
Collembola	Springtails
Dipluran	Diplurans
Microcoryphia	Jumping Bristletails
Thysanura	Bristletails
Ephemeroptera	Mayflies
Odonata	Dragonflies and Damselflies
Isoptera	Termites
Zoraptera	Zorapterans
Grylloblattodea	Ice Insect
Dermaptera	Earwigs
Plecoptera	Stoneflies
Orthoptera	Grasshoppers, Katydids, Crickets, Mantids, Walkingsticks, and Cockroaches
Embioptera	Webspinners
Psocoptera	Booklice and Barklice
Mallophaga	Chewing Lice
Anoplura	Sucking Lice
Hemiptera	Bugs: Shown here is an assassin bug nymph, Family Reduviidae.
Homoptera	Cicadas, Hoppers, Whiteflies, Aphids, and Scale Insects
Thysanoptera	Thrips
Raphidioptera	Snakeflies
Neuroptera	Fishflies, Lacewings, and Antlions
Coleoptera	Beetles
Strepsiptera	Twisted-winged Parasites
Mecoptera	Scorpionflies and Their Allies
Siponaptera	Fleas
Diptera	Flies and Gnats
Lepidoptera	Butterflies and Moths
Thichoptera	Caddisflies
Hymenoptera	Sawflies, Ichneumons, Chalcids, Ants, Wasps, and Bees

Arachnids are a class (Arachnida) of joint-legged invertebrate animals in the subphylum Chelicerata. (Sorce Wikipedia)

Araneae	Spiders
Scorpionida	Scorpions
Pseudoscorpionida	Pseudoscorpions
Opiliones	Daddy-long-legs
Acarina	Mites and Ticks
Uropygi	Whipscorpions
Amblypygi	Tailless Whipscorpions
Solpugida	Windscorpion

Centipedes	Centipedes are arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda and the Subphylum Myriapoda. (Source: Wikipedia)
Milipedes	Millipedes (Class Diplopoda, previously also known as Chilognatha) are arthropods that have two pairs of legs per segment (except for the first segment behind the head which does not have any appendages at all, and the next few which only have one pair of legs)(Source: Wikipedia)

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