Definition of Order Isoptera

1. Noun. Order of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass Exopterygota.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Isoptera

order Hemiptera
order Heterosomata
order Heterotrichales
order Hymenogastrales
order Hymenoptera
order Hypericales
order Hypermastigina
order Hypocreales
order Hyracoidea
order Ichthyosauria
order Ictodosauria
order Insectivora
order Insessores
order Isoetales
order Isopoda
order Isoptera (current term)
order Isospondyli
order Juglandales
order Jungermanniales
order Lagomorpha
order Laminariales
order Lechanorales
order Lepidodendrales
order Lepidoptera
order Lichenales
order Liliales
order Lobata
order Loricata
order Lycoperdales
order Lycopodiales

Literary usage of Order Isoptera

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

1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"... WHITE ANTS (order Isoptera.) Although from their peculiarities of structure the insects of this group form a distinct order, there are not many genera ..."

2. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"order Isoptera.—-The order Isoptera, termites, or so-called white ants (although not related to the true ants) comprises less than ten species in North ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... but aquatic in habit, breathing dissolved air by thoracic trachea! gills Order : Isoptera. Biting mandibles; second maxillae incompletely fused. ..."

4. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"Order ISOPTERA. Termites. A, male or king of Termes. B, female or queen of Termes. C, worker of Termes. D, soldier of Termes. (From the Cambridge Natural ..."

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