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Orthoptera
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Or-thop′te-ra
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Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
ὀρθόσ
straight + [GREEK] feather, wing.] (Zool.)
An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, mantids, crickets, katydids, etc. See Illust. under
Insect
. Definition 2024
Orthoptera
Orthoptera
See also: orthoptera
Translingual
Proper noun
Orthoptera
- 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
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
orthoptera
orthoptera
See also: Orthoptera
English
Noun
orthoptera (plural orthopteras)
- Any of very many four-winged insects, of the order Orthoptera, such as grasshoppers, crickets and locusts