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Orthoptera

noun
1.
Grasshoppers and locusts; crickets.  Synonym: order Orthoptera.



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... beauty of male butterflies, I must as yet think it is due to sexual selection. There is some evidence that dragon-flies are attracted by bright colours; but what leads me to the above belief is, so many male Orthoptera and Cicadas having musical instruments. This being the case, the analogy of birds makes me believe in sexual selection with respect to colour in insects. I wish I had strength and time to make some of the experiments suggested by ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin


Words linked to "Orthoptera" :   family Gryllidae, family Stenopelmatidae, orthopteron, family Acrididae, class Hexapoda, Insecta, Tettigoniidae, Locustidae, family Tettigoniidae, family Locustidae, orthopterous insect, Stenopelmatidae, Hexapoda, animal order, Acrididae, class Insecta, Gryllidae


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