Dictyoptera (Cohort)

Sphodromantis viridis

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Cohort: Dictyoptera
Ordines (2 + 1†): Blattodea – Mantodea – †Alienoptera

Name

Dictyoptera Leach, 1815

Synonymy

• Dictuoptera Leach, 1815: 60, 120 (as order)
• Dictyoptera: Enderlein, 1904: 145 (as order)
• Pandictyoptera Crampton, 1917: 408 (as superorder)
• Panisoptera Crampton, 1919: 46 (as superorder)
• Blattopteroidea Martynov, 1924: 176 (as superorder)
• Isopteria Crampton, 1938: 171 (as superorder)
• Dictuopteroida: Kevan, 1976 (as superorder)
• Oothecariformia Zompro, 2005: 109

References

Primary references

• Crampton, G.C. 1917. A phylogenetic study of the lateral head, neck, and prothoracic regions in some Apterygota and lower Pterygota. Entomological News 28(9): 398–412. BHL.
• Crampton, G.C. 1919. Notes on phylogeny of the Orthoptera. Entomological News 30(2): 42–48; (3): 64–72. BHL, BHL.
• Crampton, G.C. 1938. The interrelationships and lines of descent of living insects. Psyche 45(4): 165–181. BHL.
• Enderlein, G. 1904. Läusse-Studien. Über die Morphologie, Klassifikation und systematische Stellung der Anopluren nebst Bemerkungen zur Systematik der Insektenordungen.. Zoologischer Anzeiger 28(4): 121–147. BHL.
• Leach, W.E. 1815. Entomology [pp. 57–172]. In: Brewster, D. (Ed). Brewster’s Edinburgh Encyclopedia. Volume IX [part I]. W. Blackwood, J. Waugh, etc., Edinburgh, 764 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Zompro, O. 2005. Inter- and intra-ordinal relationships of the Mantophasmatodea, with comments on the phylogeny of polyneopteran orders (Insecta: Polyneoptera). Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 89: 85–116. ResearchGate . Reference page. 

Additional references

• Klass, K.-D. & Meier, R. 2006. A phylogenetic analysis of Dictyoptera (Insecta) based on morphological characters. Entomologische Abhandlungen 63(1–2): 3–50. ResearchGate . Reference page.