1868 Catal. First Exhib. Aeronaut. Soc. Great Brit. 11 (heading) Working models. 12 Orthoptere. Viscount de Ponton d'Amecourt,..Paris.

1873 J. B. Pettigrew Animal Locomotion 217 MM. Nadar, Pontin [sic] d'Amécourt, and de la Landelle have constructed clockwork models (orthopteres), which..raise themselves into the air.

1887 tr. J. Verne Clipper of Clouds vii. 65 If the orthopter—striking like the wings of a bird—raised itself by beating the air, the helicopter raised itself by striking the air obliquely with the fins of the screw as it mounted on an inclined plane.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 23 Mar. 4/2 The Lamplough orthopter is not dependent for its sustentation in the air on rapid motion.

1917 Jane's All World's Aircraft A. 10/2 Orthopter, an intended-to-fly machine in which the wings are flapped mechanically in a manner which the designer believes would be the right way for a bird to flap its wings if its Creator had known more about aero-dynamics.

1984 J. J. Horgan City of Flight iv. 101 [Entrants in the 1907 James Gordon Bennett International Aeronautic Club Race included] the Orthopter of George Francis Meyers, Columbus, Ohio..[and] the Orthopter, Milwaukee Number 1, entered by the Vacu-Aerial Navigation and Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee.

1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Orthopter, Orthopteran, one of the Orthoptera.

1935 Discovery July 199/1 Another orthopter, Ephippigera vitium Latr...lives in the Pacific and west Mediterranean areas, and in some places in Central Europe as a ‘Pontic relic’.

1996 Internat. Jrnl. Plant Sci. 157 (Suppl.) S123/1 As visitors or pollinators of Ephedra flies and hymenopters were mentioned..; for Gnetum, small flies, moths, coleopters, an orthopter, and a hemipter, and Trigona bees.