Definition of Plecoptera in English:
Plecoptera
plural nounplɪˈkɒptərəpləˈkäptərə
Entomology 1An order of insects that comprises the stoneflies.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Grylloblattida s. Storozhenko matches the composition of the Plecopteroid Assemblage excluding the Plecoptera.
- Hedriumichnus may therefore have been produced by a nymph of a primitive Ephemeroptera (Mayflies; the lobes representing abdominal leglets), or Plecoptera (Stoneflies; the lobes representing globular gills).
- Hedriumichnus, known only from the Robledo Mountains, is interpreted as the resting trace of a nymph of a primitive Ephemeroptera or Plecoptera.
- One small brown insect that I first thought might be some type of Plecoptera or Neuroptera quickly revealed itself to be a webspinner (Embioptera).
- 1.1 Insects of the order Plecoptera; stoneflies.
the gills of most plecoptera
Example sentencesExamples
- Analysis of the databases shows that the Plecoptera are at a much better level of determination than the Ephemeroptera.
- Plecoptera are thought to have a relationship with the Orthopteroid-Plecopteroid assemblage.
Derivatives
noun & adjective
Entomology The taxonomic diversity of the IKIP plecopteran specimens identified to date consists of 21 species belonging to 15 genera in 6 families.
Example sentencesExamples
- The plecopteran fauna was studied by means of slit traps and hand net during the summers of 1982-1987.
- In many of the bootstrap analyses, node A is disrupted because the long plecopteran branch joins with the long collembolan branch, and this attraction is reduced under the more complex models.
Origin
Modern Latin (plural), from Greek plekos 'wickerwork' (from plekein 'to plait') + pteron 'wing'.