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orthopteroid, a. and n. Ent.|ɔːˈθɒptərɔɪd|
[f. Orthoptera n. pl. (P. A. Latreille in C. S. Sonnini Buffon's Hist. Nat. Crustacés & Insectes (1802) III. 267) + -oid.]
A. adj. Belonging or pertaining to a group of insect orders closely related to the Orthoptera.
B. n. An insect included in this group.
1887A. Heilprin Geogr. & Geol. Distribution Animals 146 The discovery..of an apparent orthopteroid (Palæoblattina) in the most nearly equivalent deposits of Calvados, France. 1889Nicholson & Lydekker Man. Palæont. (ed. 3) I. 593 The Orthopteroid section of the Palæodictyoptera includes a group of forms representing the modern Cockroaches. 1910Encycl. Brit. XIII. 432/1 Orthopteroid wing-neuration. 1942E. O. Essig College Entomol. ii. 15 Frons—a single sclerite between and below the branches of the epicranial suture; carries the single frontal ocellus of orthopteroid insects. 1973W. S. Romoser Sci. of Entomol. xi. 323 Like the paleopterous forms, orthopteroid insects are hemimetabolous. |