Definition of dictyopteras Dictyopteras

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Noun
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
		order Dictyoptera
		animal order the order of animals
		class hexapoda, class insecta, hexapoda, insecta insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species
		dictyopterous insect cockroaches and mantids
		blattaria, blattodea, suborder blattaria, suborder blattodea cockroaches; in some classifications considered an order