Orthoptera
Appearance
See also: orthoptera
Translingual
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) + πτερά (pterá, “wings”), plural of πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).
Proper noun
Orthoptera
- A taxonomic order within the superorder Polyneoptera – various insects including crickets, grasshoppers, wetas, katydids, etc. It formerly included many other groups such as cockroaches, stick insects, mantids and earwigs, which are now classified in other orders
Hypernyms
- (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Polyneoptera - superorder
Hyponyms
Descendants
- English: orthopteran
References
- Orthoptera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Orthoptera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Orthoptera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Orthoptera at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Orthoptera at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Orthoptera at World Register of Marine Species
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI