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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.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Dictyopterous Insect, Blattaria, Blattodea, Suborder Blattaria, Suborder Blattodea, Manteodea, Suborder Manteodea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Dictyoptera
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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