Orthoptera

From Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) + πτερά (pterá, “wings”), plural of πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).

Orthoptera

1. 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

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Polyneoptera - superorder

• (order): Caelifera, Ensifera - suborders

• English: orthopteran

• 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
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