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orthopterous insect - any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts

orthopteran, orthopteron

insect - small air-breathing arthropod

order Orthoptera, Orthoptera - grasshoppers and locusts; crickets

grasshopper, hopper - terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping

cricket - leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together

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Another example is that of he North American katydid species Atlanticus gibbosus Scudder of which Rehn and Hebard (1907) state: "It possesses greater strength in the jaws than any other North American Orthopterous insect known to us.

Medical and veterinary importance of grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets (Hexapoda: Orthoptera)

Westwood JO (1859) Catalogue of Orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum.

Description of the female, egg and first instar nymph of the stick insect Paraphasma pautense (Phasmatodea: Pseudophasmatidae) from Southeast Brazil

1859.--Catalogue of Orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum.

Phasmatodea (insecta) de la Reserva Natural Rio Nambi, Narino, Colombia

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