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Wingless insect

Insect lacking wings

There are various disparate groups of wingless insects. Apterygota are a subclass of small, agile insects, distinguished from other insects by their lack of wings in the present and in their evolutionary history. They include Thysanura (silverfish and firebrats). Some species lacking wings are members of insect orders that generally do have wings. Some do not grow wings at all, having "lost" the possibility in the remote past. Some have reduced wings that are not useful for flying. Some develop wings but shed them after they are no longer useful. Other groups of insects may have castes with wings and castes without, such as ants. Ants have alate queens and males during the mating season and wingless workers, which allows for smaller workers and more populous colonies than comparable winged wasp species.

Wingless flies

True flies are insects of the order Diptera. The name is derived from the Greek di- = two, and ptera = wings. Most insects of this order have two wings (not counting the halteres, club-like limbs which are homologous to the second pair of wings found on insects of other orders). Wingless flies are found on some islands and other isolated places. Some are parasites, resembling ticks.

Wingless flies

Chionea scita, a type of snow crane fly
Genus Badisis
Family Braulidae, or bee lice
Melophagus ovinus, or the sheep ked
Mystacinobia zelandica, the New Zealand batfly
Wingless midges
- Genus Belgica, including Belgica antarctica, the Antarctic midge
- Genus Pontomyia, marine flightless midges

Fly species that shed wings

Lipoptena mazamae, the Neotropical deer ked

Wingless mutant flies

Flightless fruit fly

Wingless moths

There are many species of wingless moths. Often only the females are wingless (larviform females).

Moth species having wingless females

Luffia lapidella
Operophtera fagata, the northern winter moth
Orgyia recens, the scarce vapourer
Pachythelia villosella
Operophtera brumata, the winter moth :Many more

Flightless moths

Pringleophaga marioni, the Subantarctic caterpillar

Wingless wasps

Family Rhopalosomatidae, having winged, wingless, and reduced-wing species

Wasp species having wingless females

Family Mutillidae, with more than 3,000 species
Diamma bicolor, the blue ant (a wasp)
Some ichneumon wasps like Gelis

Others

Order Notoptera
Order Phthiraptera, lice, a wingless order under the winged superorder Exopterygota
Order Siphonaptera, fleas, believed to have had winged ancestors
Family Eumastacidae, grasshoppers having many wingless species
Family Lampyridae, fireflies which often have larviform females
Family Myrmecophilidae, ant crickets
Family Trichogrammatidae, parasitic wasps, some species of which have wingless males that mate and die inside the host egg
Genus Platerodrilus, trilobite beetles with flightless larviform females
Thinopinus pictus, the pictured rove beetle

References

(2015). "Wingless and dwarf workers underlie the ecological success of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Myrmecological News.
"Bee Louse, Bee Fly, Braulid, Braula coeca Nitzsch (Insecta: Diptera: Braulidae)". University of Florida.

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