Translingual

Proper noun

Orthoptera

1. A taxonomic order within the superorder Polyneoptera – various insects including crickets, grasshoppers, wetas, katydids, etc... It formerly included many other groups such as cockroaches, stick insects, mantids and earwigs, which are now classified in other orders

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Polyneoptera - superorder

Hyponyms

• (order): Caelifera, Ensifera - suborders

References

• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

English

Noun

orthoptera ‎(plural orthopteras)

1. Any of very many four-winged insects, of the order Orthoptera, such as grasshoppers, crickets and locusts