सामाजिक कीड़ों का आदेश जो उपनिवेशों में रहते हैं: दीमक; अक्सर सबक्लास exopterygota में रखा जाता है

isoptera's Usage Examples:

ISOPTERA: For Embiidae see H.

In the absence of cerci the Corrodentia are more specialized than the Isoptera and Plecoptera, but some of them show a more primitive character in the retention of vestigial maxillulae - the minute pair of jaws that are found behind the mandibles in the Aptera.

The Termitidae (so-called " white ants ") are the other family of Isoptera.

1) whence the name Isoptera (=equal winged) lately applied to the group by G.

Order Isoptera.

Orders: Dermaptera, Orthoptera, Plecoptera, Isoptera, Corrodentia, Ephemoptera, Odonata, Thysanoptera, Hemiptera, Anoplura.

The Odonata are in many imaginal and larval characters highly specialized; yet they probably arose with the Ephemeroptera as a divergent offshoot of the same primitive isopteroid stock which developed more directly into the living Isoptera, Plecoptera, Dermaptera and Orthoptera.

It is probable that many of these Carboniferous insects might be referred to the Isoptera, while others would fall into the existing orders to which they are allied, with some modification of our present diagnoses.

Order: Isoptera.

In the Embiidae, a family of Isoptera, it has been shown by G.

isoptera's Meaning':

order of social insects that live in colonies including: termites; often placed in subclass Exopterygota