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Definition of Order Isoptera
1. Noun. Order of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass Exopterygota.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Family Termitidae, Termitidae, Termite, White Ant, Family Rhinotermitidae, Rhinotermitidae, Family Mastotermitidae, Mastotermitidae, Family Kalotermitidae, Kalotermitidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Isoptera
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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