Orthoptera

See also: orthoptera

Translingual

Etymology

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

Proper noun

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

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

• (order): Caelifera, Ensifera - suborders

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: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248