Dictyoptera (n.)

  1. 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

    [ Syn: dictyoptera , order dictyoptera ]

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