Associations to the word «Dictyoptera»

Wiktionary

DICTYOPTERA, proper noun. A taxonomic cohort within the supercohort Polyneoptera.
DICTYOPTERA, proper noun. (in italics) (Dictyoptera) A taxonomic genus within the family Lycidae   — the net-winged beetle.

Dictionary definition

DICTYOPTERA, 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.

Wise words

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