Definition of Order Trichoptera

1. Noun. An order of insects consisting of caddis flies.

Exact synonyms: Trichoptera
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Trichopteran, Trichopteron, Trichopterous Insect, Caddisworm, Strawworm

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Trichoptera

order Synentognathi
order Taxales
order Temnospondyli
order Testacea
order Testudinata
order Testudines
order Tetraodontiformes
order Thecodontia
order Therapsida
order Thymelaeales
order Thysanoptera
order Thysanura
order Tinamiformes
order Torpediniformes
order Tremellales
order Trichoptera (current term)
order Trogoniformes
order Tuberales
order Tubulidentata
order Tulostomatales
order Ulvales
order Umbellales
order Uredinales
order Urodella
order Uropygi
order Urticales
order Ustilaginales
order Volvocales
order Xiphosura
order Xyridales

Literary usage of Order Trichoptera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"... THE CADDIS FLIES (order Trichoptera.) Almost everyone who likes to watch curious living creatures knows the caddis worms—the strange little larvae which ..."

2. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"order Trichoptera THE CADDIS-FLIES The Caddis-flies are among the most interesting of our insects. Although about 150 species have been described ..."

3. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1838)
"Order TRICHOPTERA. Order LEPIDOPTERA. ? ? Here the approach of the Trichoptera to the Hymenoptera, and of the Lepidoptera to the Diptera, the direct passage ..."

4. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"282, A) which its aquatic larva builds of leaves, grass stems, or grains of sand as FIG. 382. — Order TRICHOPTERA. Stages in the a means of protec- ..."

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