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Key characteristics include their large claws, long antennae, and a hard exoskeleton. Role in ecosystem: omnivorous scavengers contributing to marine detritus processing.

Key characteristics include their bright orange wings decorated with black lines, and a unique long-distance migration. Role in ecosystem: pollinators and indicator species for environmental changes.

Key characteristics include their excellent vision, ability to jump long distances, and intricate courtship dances. Role in ecosystem: predators controlling insect populations.

Key characteristics include their feeding habit on feces, rolling dung into balls for consumption and reproduction. Role in ecosystem: nutrient recycling and soil aeration.

Key characteristics include their agile flight, large compound eyes, and elongated body. Role in ecosystem: control of the insect population, particularly mosquitoes.

Key characteristics include their large size, hairy bodies, and fangs. Role in ecosystem: controlling rodent and insect populations.

Key characteristics include eusocial behavior, a 'waggle dance' for communication, and production of honey. Role in ecosystem: vital pollinators.

Key characteristics include a dome-shaped body with colorful patterns, and being voracious predators of aphids. Role in ecosystem: biological control agents.

Key characteristics include building intricate circular webs, unique patterns on their abdomen, and the ability to consume and recycle their web. Role in ecosystem: insect population control.

Key characteristics include raptorial forelegs, a triangular head with a flexible neck, and its ambush predatory behavior. Role in ecosystem: pest control.

Key characteristics include their strong hind legs for jumping, sound production by stridulation, and a herbivorous diet. Role in ecosystem: a food source for predators and herbivory affecting plant communities.

Key characteristics include their nocturnal behavior, rapid running, and resilience. Role in ecosystem: decomposition and nutrient cycling.

Key characteristics include their lack of claws, long antennae, and group migrations in single-file lines. Role in ecosystem: scavengers playing a role in the detritus food web.

Key characteristics include their ability to roll into a ball, detritivorous diet, and terrestrial lifestyle. Role in ecosystem: nutrient recycling and soil health maintenance.

Key characteristics include their ability to vector diseases, aquatic larvae, and females' blood-sucking behavior for egg production. Role in ecosystem: pollination and as a food source for other animals.

Key characteristics include their potent venom, sexual dimorphism, and irregular web design. Role in ecosystem: insect population control through predation.

Key characteristics include their caterpillar-like appearance with velvety texture, shooting slime for prey capture, and being ancient relatives of arthropods. Role in ecosystem: predation of small invertebrates aiding in population control.

Key characteristics include males' large mandibles used for fighting over mates, preference for decaying wood, and being a part of the saproxylic community. Role in ecosystem: decomposition and nutrient release from dead wood.

Key characteristics include their extraordinary size among insects, a diet rich in sugar and protein, and a complex life cycle. Role in ecosystem: decomposers and nutrient cyclers.

Key characteristics include their ability to walk on water surfaces, a hunting strategy based on surface tension, and long legs. Role in ecosystem: predators of insects fallen into water sources.

Key characteristics include their use of empty mollusk shells for protection, social behavior, and detritivorous diet. Role in ecosystem: recycling organic material.

Key characteristics include their subterranean lifestyle, forelimbs adapted for digging, and chirping for communication. Role in ecosystem: soil aeration and modification of the soil profile.

Key characteristics include their robust build, excellent eyesight, and maternal care of carrying young on their back. Role in ecosystem: controlling pest insect populations.

Key characteristics include their appearance with spiny exoskeletons, nocturnal habits, and significant jaw power. Role in ecosystem: carnivorous diet helps regulate populations of arthropods and small vertebrates.

Key characteristics include their venomous stinger, pincers, and ability to fluoresce under UV light. Role in ecosystem: predation of insects and other arthropods.

Key characteristics include their blue-hued shell, sharp pincers, and the molting process for growth. Role in ecosystem: omnivorous scavenger and prey for larger species.

Key characteristics include domestication for honey production, a barbed sting, and a complex social structure. Role in ecosystem: pollination of crops and wild plants.

Key characteristics include their periodic emergence from the ground, loud mating calls, and large transparent wings. Role in ecosystem: aerating the soil and as a food source for various predators.

Key characteristics include being one of the largest moths in size, their patterned wings resembling snake heads for defense, and the moth's short, adult lifespan. Role in ecosystem: as pollinators and part of the food web.

Key characteristics include their nomadic lifestyle, forming 'ant bivouacs' without permanent nests, and cooperative hunting. Role in ecosystem: predator of other insects and small vertebrates leading to forest floor nutrient redistribution.

Key characteristics include their social caste system, wood consumption, and mutualistic relationship with gut microbes to digest cellulose. Role in ecosystem: decomposition of wood and nutrient recycling.

Key characteristics include their ability to glide on water, hydrophobic leg hairs, and predatory behavior on small insects in ponds. Role in ecosystem: maintaining aquatic insect population balance.

Key characteristics include their preference for cold water, long legs, and sexual dimorphism. Role in ecosystem: as benthic omnivores, they are both predators and prey in marine food webs.

Key characteristics include the males' vibrant colors and elaborate courtship dances displaying their extended flaps. Role in ecosystem: insect population control through predation.

Key characteristics include their social structure forming colonies, ability to lift many times their own body weight, and communication through pheromones. Role in ecosystem: aeration of soil, decomposition, and seed dispersal.

Key characteristics include the extreme size difference between the claws of males, their burrowing lifestyle, and their role in the sediment turnover. Role in ecosystem: aerating the mud and helping in nutrient cycling.

Key characteristics include their fuzzy appearance, ability to buzz pollinate, and living in smaller colonies than honeybees. Role in ecosystem: pollination of flowers, including some crops.

Key characteristics include their painful sting, aggressive defense of their colonies, and their omnivorous diet. Role in ecosystem: soil aeration and seed propagation.

Key characteristics include being the larval stage of butterflies and moths, voracious leaf consumption, and undergoing metamorphosis. Role in ecosystem: herbivory affects plant growth and provides food for predators.

Key characteristics include one of the largest beetles, prominent horn used in battles between males, and the larvae's prolonged development inside decaying wood. Role in ecosystem: decomposers contributing to nutrient cycling.

Key characteristics include their robust claws for crushing prey, habitat in estuarine environments, and importance in aquaculture. Role in ecosystem: top predators in mangrove ecosystems and detritus processors.

Key characteristics include their large size, distinctive red coloration, and commercially important fishery subject. Role in ecosystem: predator and prey within benthic communities.

Key characteristics include their resemblance to orchids as a camouflage strategy, sexual dimorphism, and predation on pollinating insects. Role in ecosystem: predatory role, often manipulating pollinator-prey relationships.

Key characteristics include the strange appearance of caterpillar resembling a lobster, the nocturnal behavior of the adult, and a habitat preference for forested areas. Role in ecosystem: the caterpillars act as leaf consumers and the moths as pollinators.

Key characteristics include their leaf-like appearance for camouflage, nocturnal lifestyle, and the sound production via stridulation. Role in ecosystem: herbivory and as a food source for nocturnal predators.

Key characteristics include their hard carapace with a horseshoe shape, long spike-like tail, and blue blood containing hemocyanin. Role in ecosystem: ecological importance as part of the food web and biomedical significance of their blood.