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Order Dictyoptera


Domain Eukarya
Kingdom Animalia
Sub-kingdom Eumetazoa
Sub-sub-kingdom Bilateria
Metaphylum Schizocoelos Coelomates
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Uniramia
Class Insecta
Subclass Pterygota

Order Dictyoptera

This groups contains cockroaches, preying mantids and termites, which are somwehat similar to the orthopterans. (Mantids and cockroaches are often placed within the order Orthoptera, and the termites in a seperate order, the Isoptera.) Greek: dictyon, net + pteron, wing. (Dorit et al, 1991)