orthopteroidn.adj.
/ɔːˈθɒptərɔɪd/, U.S. /ɔrˈθɑptəˌrɔɪd/ Entomology.
A. n.
An orthopteran or similar insect; spec. a member of an informal assemblage of orders allied to the Orthoptera, usually including also the Phasmida, Grylloblattodea, Dermaptera, Isoptera, Blattodea, and Mantodea, and sometimes the Plecoptera, Zoraptera, and Embioptera.Some schemes have included a subclass or clade called the Orthopteroidea.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > member of group related to Orthoptera
orthopteroid1885
1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 877 It will appear from this that, by a sort of principle of family continuity, we may recognize in the Palæozoic insects a tendency toward differentiation in ordinal characters sufficient to enable us in an ex post facto fashion to distinguish between orthopteroid, neuropteroid, etc.
1887 A. Heilprin Geogr. & Geol. Distribution Animals 146 The discovery..of an apparent orthopteroid (Palæoblattina) in the most nearly equivalent deposits of Calvados, France.
1943 Amer. Midland Naturalist 29 392 The entire Neoptera, both Orthopteroids and Holometabola, agree on the pattern of axillary sclerites and mechanism of wing folding.
1998 BioScience (Nexis) 48 35 Among chewing herbivores, the orthopteroids, such as grasshoppers and stick insects,..show little change: They feed throughout life, and the feeding patterns of larval and adult forms are usually similar.
B. adj.
Resembling the Orthoptera; relating to, characteristic of, or designating the orthopteroids.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [adjective] > hemimetabolous > belonging to Orthoptera > belonging to group related to Orthoptera
orthopteroid1889
1889 H. A. Nicholson & R. Lydekker Man. Palæontol. (ed. 3) I. 593 The Orthopteroid section of the Palæodictyoptera includes a group of forms representing the modern Cockroaches.
1910 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 432/1 Orthopteroid wing-neuration.
1942 E. 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.
1988 J. A. Marshall & E. C. M. Haes Grasshoppers & Allied Insects Great Brit. & Ireland i. i. 15 This book lists and describes all the orthopteroid insects which are either native species or established aliens in the British Isles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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