Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An order of the class Insecta proposed by Olivier in 1789 for certain straight-winged insects which Linnæus had placed in Hemiptera, and to which De Geer in 1773 had restricted the order Hemiptera, placing the true bugs in a new order Dermaptera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun plural (Zoöl.) An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, mantids, crickets, katydids, etc. See
Illust. underinsect .
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- proper noun A taxonomic
order within thesubdivision Polyneoptera — variousinsects including thecockroach ,cricket ,grasshopper ,stick insect , etc..
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun grasshoppers and locusts; crickets
Etymologies
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Examples
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"incomplete metamorphosis" of the Orthoptera is the primitive one,
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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The goal of a larva is to be ingested by an adult insect such as Orthoptera (e.g. grasshopper) and Coleoptera (e.g. giant water beetle).
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The goal of a larva is to be ingested by an adult insect such as Orthoptera (e.g. grasshopper) and Coleoptera (e.g. giant water beetle).
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The scattered angiosperms here and in the foothills supported some host-specific herbivores with associated predators; they were also exploited (especially after exceptional rains) by a number of Orthoptera, Hemiptera, and Lepidoptera derived from migratory African populations and perhaps reinforced at intervals by additional groups of colonists.
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Other groups like Orthoptera and Diptera species are almost 45 percent and 40 percent endemic respectively.
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All of the seven species of stonefly are endemic and there are endemic genera of wetas (Orthoptera).
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Lichen mimic grasshopper (Orthoptera sp.) of the western Andes (at 1000m), Ecuador.
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Invertebrate stocks that colonized Ascension underwent a variety of evolutionary changes including phyletic evolution leading to endemic status, adaptation to subterranean life (Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones, Collembola, and Psocoptera), character release (phorid Diptera), and probably splitting of lineages (speciation) within the island (Isopoda, Collembola, and gryllid Orthoptera).
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The biodiversity of the tugai ecosystem is very rich with representative invertebrates, particularly within the insect orders Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, semi-Coleoptera, and Orthoptera.
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Dominant insect groups include Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Cantharidae, Coccinellidae, Miridae and Orthoptera that are distributed in the arid/dry steppe.
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