blattodean

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English

Etymology

From translingual Blattodea +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

Noun

blattodean (plural blattodeans)

  1. (entomology) Any insect in the order Blattodea, which includes the cockroaches and, in more recent taxonomy, termites.
    • 2012 September 30, Piotr Naskrecki, “Celebrate blattodeans”, in The Smaller Majority:
      At the Las Cruces Biological Station near the Panamanian border, I found nymphs of the giant blattodean Megaloblatta blaberoides, which, until recently was considered to be the largest member of this group of insects in the world (a larger species was found in SE Asia a few years ago.)
    • 2016 December 2, Benjamin Wipfler, Kevin Weissing, Klaus Klass, Tom Weihmann, “The cephalic morphology of the American cockroach Periplaneta americana (Blattodea)”, in Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny:
      The lacinula, a subapical lobelet on the lacinia, is present in almost all studied blattodeans but its potential homology to the dentisetae of Palaeoptera or the lamellae of apterygotes cannot be addressed at the moment.
    • 2017 November 9, Gil Wizen, “A Moment of Creativity: Reconsidering blattodeans”, in Gil Wizen: Entomologist and Photographer:
      I hate to admit, but my issue with uploading photos of blattodeans is mainly due to difficulties in identifying some of the species I photographed.

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