dictyopterous insect

Noun
  1. Cockroaches and mantids (synset 102235603)
    is a type of: insect - small air-breathing arthropod
    subtypes:
    • cockroach, roach - any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests
    • mantid, mantis - predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer
    belongs to: dictyoptera, 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 Orthoptera

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