suborder Manteodea

Thesaurus

Noun

1.suborder Manteodea - mantises; in former classifications considered a suborder of OrthopteraManteodeaanimal order - the order of animalsDictyoptera, order Dictyoptera - in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthopterafamily Manteidae, family Mantidae, Manteidae, Mantidae - mantises