Insect Antennae
Insect Antennae is a pair of segmented sensory organs located on the head, above the mouth parts. It has three parts Scape, Pedicel, Flagellum
Insect Antennae and its types
- Moniliform (bead like )
- Filiform (thread like)
- Clavate (Club-like)
- Aristate (arista)
- Geniculte (elbow like)
- Setaceous (bristle like)
- Serrate (tooth like)
- Pectinate (one side Comb like)
- Bipectinate (Both side comb like)
- Plumose (feather-like)
- Pilose (Hairy)
- Capitate (Head like)
- Lamellate (leaf like)
- Stylate (stetiform)
- Enisifom (sword like)
Some Common Insect and their types of Antennae
| Questions | Answers |
| 1. Moniliform Bead like antennae are found in | Termites |
| 2. Filiform type of antennae are found in | Grasshopper |
| 3. Butterflies bears which type of antennae. | Clavate |
| 4. Arista like antennae are found in | Syrphid flies, house fly. |
| 5. Honey bee have type _____ of antennae | Geniculte |
| 6. Setaceous form of antennae are found in | dragonfly. |
| 7. Serrate or dentate type of antenna are found in | Pulse beetle |
| 8. Pectinate type antenna are found in | Cardinal beetle and saw fly |
| 9. Bipectinate type antenna are found in | silkworm. |
| 10. Male mosquito have what type antennae | plumose |
| 11. Female mosquito have | pilose type antennae. |
| 12. Capitate type of antennae are found in | Red flour beetle. |
| 13. Lammellate type antennae are found in | Dung beetles. |
| 14. Stylate type antennae are found in | robber fly |
| 15. Ensiform type antennae present in | Green grasshopper |
