An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect.

  An order of insects with uniform wing- covers, that overlap at the top when shut, under which are the true wings, which fold lengthwise like a fan.

  An order of insects comprising two suborders: Caelifera and Ensifera. They consist of GRASSHOPPERS, locusts, and crickets ( GRYLLIDAE).

  An order of insects which have their two outer wings disposed in straight folds when at rest, as the grasshopper and house- cricket.

  An order of insects.

  grasshoppers and locusts; crickets

“ Of all the other tribes of the Orthoptera Ceylon possesses many representatives; in swarms of cockroaches, grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets. ” – Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by J. Emerson Tennent

“ In connection with these comparisons, it is to be noted that the dragon- flies and may- flies are more highly specialised insects than stone- flies, divergent specialisation of the adult and larva is therefore well illustrated in these groups, which nevertheless have, like the Hemiptera and Orthoptera visible external wing- rudiments. ” – The Life-Story of Insects by Geo. H. Carpenter

“ We cannot very well call him a member of the Running Orthoptera can we? ” – The Insect Folk by Margaret Warner Morley

“ Of insects it prefers spiders and the Orthoptera eggs and small birds are also eagerly devoured. ” – Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert A. Sterndale

“ And that is what we name them, the Jumping Orthoptera ” – The Insect Folk by Margaret Warner Morley

“ They send me all sorts of trumpery,- he said, Orthoptera and Lepidoptera; as if a coleopterist- a scarabeeist- cared for such things. ” – The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

“ Some examples of Coleoptera and Orthoptera are mentioned, and their origin discussed. ” – The History of the European Fauna by R. F. Scharff

“ We must call his kind the Walking Orthoptera ” – The Insect Folk by Margaret Warner Morley

“ I saw very few flies, butterflies, or bees, and no crickets or Orthoptera ” – On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera by Thomas Vernon Wollaston

“ Now you shall have a list of the Orthoptera that will help you to remember them. ” – The Insect Folk by Margaret Warner Morley

“ I have but little more to say on the Orthoptera ” – The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I (1st edition) by Charles Darwin

“ In their metamorphoses they resemble the Orthoptera and are active through life. ” – On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by Sir John Lubbock

“ In the Orthoptera and among those insects in which the changes are gradual, the mouth of the so- called larva resembles that of the perfect insect, and the principal difference consists in the presence of wings. ” – On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by Sir John Lubbock

“ The young Orthoptera look like the old ones, only they have no wings. ” – The Insect Folk by Margaret Warner Morley

“ Orthoptera may be killed by the use of the cyanide bottle but should be transferred at once to the vials of alcohol. ” – Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley

“ From the facts now given, we see that the means by which the males produce their sounds are extremely diversified in the Orthoptera and are altogether different from those employed by the Homoptera. ” – The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I (1st edition) by Charles Darwin