Definition of Megaloptera

1. Noun. In some classifications considered a separate order: alderflies; dobsonflies; snake flies.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Megaloptera

Mega Drives
Megachile
Megachiles
Megachilidae
Megachiroptera
Megaderma
Megaderma lyra
Megadermatidae
Megaera
Megalesian
Megalobatrachus
Megalobatrachus maximus
Megalonychidae
Megalopoli
Megalopolis
Megaloptera (current term)
Megalosauridae
Megan
Meganesia
Megapodiidae
Megapodius
Megaptera
Megaptera novaeangliae
Megara
Megarian
Megarians
Megaric
Megarics
Megatheriidae
Megaw

Literary usage of Megaloptera

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

1. Field Book of Insects: With Special Reference to Those of Northeastern by Frank Eugene Lutz (1918)
"Less than a hundred species have been described from North America. Megaloptera This "pigeon-hole" in the classification of insects contains the former ..."

2. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"... also he considers the Chinese variety almost identical. The l>»tan bird is at present shown to be the same ;- tin- P. megaloptera.— Adam». ..."

3. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1869)
"bot. Ges. in of which the Strepsiptera are placed fourth. The others are Megaloptera (including the whole of the Planipennia), ..."

4. A Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company by East India Company Museum, Frederic Moore, Thomas Horsfield (1858)
"Pica megaloptera, Blyth, JAS Beng. XI. p. 193 (1842). ... (P. megaloptera, Blyth). Bootan. From the Asiatic Society of Bengal. ..."

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