dictyopterous insect

insect - small air-breathing arthropod

Dictyoptera, order Dictyoptera - in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera

cockroach, roach - any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests

mantid, mantis - predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer