orthopterous

[ awr-thop-ter-uhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Entomology.

belonging or relating to the Orthoptera, an order of insects with leathery forewings, membranous hindwings, and chewing mouthparts, including the cockroaches, mantids, walking sticks, crickets, grasshoppers, and katydids.

orthopterous

/ ɔːˈθɒptərəs /

of, relating to, or belonging to the Orthoptera, a large order of insects, including crickets, locusts, and grasshoppers, having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings, hind legs adapted for leaping, and organs of stridulation

First recorded in 1820–30; from New Latin orthopterus “straight-winged”; equivalent to ortho- + -pterous

Phyllium, fil′i-um, n. a genus of orthopterous insects of family Phasmid—leaf-insects or walking-leaves.

Now, come, let us look at all of our orthopterous friends again, cockroaches first.

But I can tell you, we feel a little better acquainted with you orthopterous fellows than we did.

The head is in form much like that of certain larvæ of Neuroptera and of Forficula, an Orthopterous insect.

Insects appear well developed, including both orthopterous and neuropterous forms, in the New Brunswick rocks.

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