dictyoptera

Noun dictyoptera has 1 sense

• dictyoptera(n = noun.animal) 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;
is a kind of animal order
is a member of class hexapoda, class insecta, hexapoda, insecta