Definition of Order Dictyoptera

1. Noun. In some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Dictyoptera

order Crocodilia
order Crocodylia
order Cuculiformes
order Cycadales
order Cycadofilicales
order Cyclostomata
order Cydippea
order Cydippida
order Cydippidea
order Cypriniformes
order Decapoda
order Dermaptera
order Dermoptera
order Diapensiales
order Dicranales
order Dictyoptera (current term)
order Dinocerata
order Dinoflagellata
order Dinornithiformes
order Diptera
order Discocephali
order Ebenales
order Edentata
order Embiodea
order Embioptera
order Endomycetales
order Entomophthorales
order Ephemerida
order Ephemeroptera
order Equisetales

Literary usage of Order Dictyoptera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"... to his order Dictyoptera, the species of which ought, we think, to be incorporated with the Orthoptera. We cannot feel surprised therefore that these ..."

2. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1864)
"... and was apparently related genetically to the two Orders : it was placed by Dr. Dohrn in an extinct Order, Dictyoptera, and has since been included by ..."

3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"... more particularly to his order Dictyoptera, the species of which ought, we think, to bo incorporated with the Orthoptera. The following arrangement ¡я ..."

4. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1916)
"... were formerly grouped together in the order Dictyoptera. The reasons for regarding the Mantids as a distinct order will be given elsewhere. ..."

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