Crossword-Solution: PLECOPTERA
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PLECOPTERA (5)
For the present we confine attention to the Stone-flies, the May-flies, and the Dragon-flies, three well-known orders of insects respectively called by systematists the Plecoptera, the Ephemeroptera and the Odonata.
Pseudo-neuroptera: those net-winged insects with incomplete metamorphosis: includes the present Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Plecoptera, Isoptera and Corrodentia: = Archiptera.
Closely allied to the latter suborder is the suborder Plecoptera, which includes the single family Perlidæ or Stone-flies.
The Plecoptera and Orthoptera agree in their numerous Malpighian tubes and in the development of a folding anal area in the hind-wing.
The Plecoptera resemble the Ephemeroptera and Odonata in the aquatic habits of their larvae, and by the occasional presence of tufted thoracic gills in the imago exhibit an aquatic character unknown in any other winged insects.
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Appears in: USA TODAY.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2023).