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Definition of Order Orthoptera
1. Noun. Grasshoppers and locusts; crickets.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Orthopteran, Orthopteron, Orthopterous Insect, Acrididae, Family Acrididae, Family Locustidae, Locustidae, Family Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniidae, Family Stenopelmatidae, Stenopelmatidae, Family Gryllidae, Gryllidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Orthoptera
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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