Definition of Order Orthoptera

1. Noun. Grasshoppers and locusts; crickets.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Orthoptera

order Myxobacteriales
order Myxosporidia
order Naiadales
order Neuroptera
order Nidulariales
order Notostraca
order Nudibranchia
order Octopoda
order Odonata
order Oleales
order Ophioglossales
order Opiliones
order Opuntiales
order Orchidales
order Ornithischia
order Orthoptera (current term)
order Ostariophysi
order Ostracodermi
order Palmales
order Pandanales
order Papaverales
order Parietales
order Pectinibranchia
order Pediculati
order Pedipalpi
order Pelecaniformes
order Pelycosauria
order Perciformes
order Percomorphi

Literary usage of Order Orthoptera

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

1. A Manual for the Study of Insects by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1895)
"Order ORTHOPTERA (Or-thop'te-ra). Cockroaches, Crickets, Grasshoppers ... The order Orthoptera includes some of the very common and best-known insects. ..."

2. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"... order Orthoptera GRASSHOPPERS, CRICKETS. KATYDIDS, ETC. Even it' they had nothing to do with the lake and its life, a discussion of the insects of the ..."

3. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"FVT] Order. Orthoptera. [The only Orthoptera recorded as doing actual harm to man are certain wingless locusts found ..."

4. Final Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1890)
"order Orthoptera. For the list it this order, I am primarily indebted to Mr. Lawrence Bruner, the Entomologist of the Nebraska Experiment Station, ..."

5. General Zoology by Arthur Sperry Pearse (1917)
"CHAPTER VIII PHYLUM ARTHROPODA, CLASS INSECTA, order Orthoptera THE RED-LEGGED LOCUST (Continued) Self-protection.—A grasshopper not only needs to secure ..."

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